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