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