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