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