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