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