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