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Job Description
Provide therapy to patients with visual impairments to improve their functioning in daily life activities. May train patients in activities such as computer use, communication skills, or home management skills.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1122.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists”.
Also Known As…
- Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
- Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (VRT)
- Teacher of the Visually Impaired
- Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI)
- Orientation and Mobility Specialist
- Orientation and Mobility Instructor
- Orientation & Mobility Specialist
- Mobility Specialist
- Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS)
- Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist
- Certified Low Vision Therapist
- Vision Therapist
- Vision Specialist
- Rehabilitation Teacher
- Orientation and Mobility Therapist for the Blind
- Low Vision Therapist
- Global Mobility Specialist
- Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist
Tasks for “Mobility Specialist”
- Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.
- Assess clients' functioning in areas such as vision, orientation and mobility skills, social and emotional issues, cognition, physical abilities, and personal goals.
- Train clients with visual impairments to use mobility devices or systems such as human guides, dog guides, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).
- Monitor clients' progress to determine whether changes in rehabilitation plans are needed.
- Participate in professional development activities such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues.
- Administer tests and interpret test results to develop rehabilitation plans for clients.
- Design instructional programs to improve communication using devices such as slates and styluses, braillers, keyboards, adaptive handwriting devices, talking book machines, digital books, and optical character readers (OCRs).
- Train clients to use adaptive equipment such as large print, reading stands, lamps, writing implements, software, and electronic devices.
- Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.
- Obtain, distribute, or maintain low vision devices.
- Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers.
- Teach cane skills including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches.
- Refer clients to services, such as eye care, health care, rehabilitation, and counseling, to enhance visual and life functioning or when condition exceeds scope of practice.
- Teach clients to travel independently using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.
- Teach independent living skills or techniques such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management.
- Train clients to read or write Braille.
- Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and propioceptive information.
- Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).
- Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals.
- Identify visual impairments related to basic life skills in areas such as self-care, literacy, communication, health management, home management, and meal preparation.
Related Technology & Tools
- Flashlight color filters
- Stacking rings
- Lea numbers 10-line distance charts
- Pointers
- Finger puppets
- Lea symbols playing cards
- Worthmore four-dot test devices
- Lea numbers 15-line distance charts
- Long canes
- Rulers
- Tactile maps
- Bailey-Lovie Acuity Chart
- Flashlights
- Adjustable task lamps
- Anti-glare visors
- Illuminated magnifiers
- Lea symbols 10-line distance charts
- Closed circuit television monitors
- Color discs
- Lea symbols single symbol books
- Lea symbols near vision cards
- Envelope addressing guides
- Check writing guides
- Lea numbers near vision cards
- Braille laptop computers
- Lea symbols domino cards
- Handheld magnifiers
- Monoculars
- Large text keyboards
- Astigmatism wheel charts
- Lea single presentation flash cards
- Near vision acuity charts
- Braille writers
- HOTV charts
- Dome magnifiers
- Piano glasses
- Print readers
- Slicing guides
- Snellen eye charts
- Penlights
- Bar magnifiers
- Stand magnifiers
- Lea grating paddles
- Braille label makers
- Medical measuring tapes
- Feinbloom distance charts
- Braille embossers
- Plastic eye models
- Lea symbols Massachusetts visual acuity test format near vision screeners
- Writing guides
- Lea symbols 15-line distance charts
- Eye occluders
- Lea crowded symbol books
- Needle threaders
- Braille personal digital assistants
- Signature guides
- Illuminated cabinets
- Stop watches
- Contrast sensitivity test cards
- Reading stands
- Copyholders
- Night scopes
- Cone adaptation test sets
- Amsler grids
- ZoomWare Screen Magnifier
- Ai Squared ZoomText
- Arkenstone Atlas Speaks
- Internet browser software
- Axistive BigShot Screen Magnifier
- Dolphin Lunar
- Freedom Scientific MAGic
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- American Printing House for the Blind Talking Typer
- American Printing House for the Blind Learn Keys
- Microsoft Access