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