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