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