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