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