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