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