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