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