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