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