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