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