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