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