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