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