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