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