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