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