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