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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”
- Identify visual impairments related to basic life skills in areas such as self-care, literacy, communication, health management, home management, and meal preparation.
- 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 independent living skills or techniques such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management.
- Train clients to read or write Braille.
- Administer tests and interpret test results to develop rehabilitation plans for clients.
- Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers.
- 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.
- 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).
- Teach cane skills including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches.
- 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.
- Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals.
- Participate in professional development activities such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues.
- 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 to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and propioceptive information.
Related Technology & Tools
- Plastic eye models
- Needle threaders
- Stop watches
- Pointers
- Tactile maps
- Lea symbols Massachusetts visual acuity test format near vision screeners
- Adjustable task lamps
- Near vision acuity charts
- Signature guides
- Contrast sensitivity test cards
- Lea numbers 15-line distance charts
- Lea symbols single symbol books
- Amsler grids
- Lea numbers 10-line distance charts
- Dome magnifiers
- HOTV charts
- Astigmatism wheel charts
- Feinbloom distance charts
- Penlights
- Finger puppets
- Lea symbols 10-line distance charts
- Braille personal digital assistants
- Check writing guides
- Reading stands
- Braille embossers
- Bar magnifiers
- Writing guides
- Lea symbols 15-line distance charts
- Lea single presentation flash cards
- Closed circuit television monitors
- Lea symbols domino cards
- Flashlights
- Envelope addressing guides
- Rulers
- Large text keyboards
- Bailey-Lovie Acuity Chart
- Lea numbers near vision cards
- Worthmore four-dot test devices
- Color discs
- Lea grating paddles
- Piano glasses
- Lea symbols playing cards
- Illuminated cabinets
- Stand magnifiers
- Monoculars
- Night scopes
- Lea crowded symbol books
- Braille label makers
- Flashlight color filters
- Print readers
- Handheld magnifiers
- Stacking rings
- Braille laptop computers
- Long canes
- Lea symbols near vision cards
- Slicing guides
- Copyholders
- Eye occluders
- Anti-glare visors
- Cone adaptation test sets
- Snellen eye charts
- Braille writers
- Illuminated magnifiers
- Medical measuring tapes
- Dolphin Lunar
- American Printing House for the Blind Learn Keys
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- Ai Squared ZoomText
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Internet browser software
- ZoomWare Screen Magnifier
- Axistive BigShot Screen Magnifier
- Arkenstone Atlas Speaks
- American Printing House for the Blind Talking Typer
- Freedom Scientific MAGic