Will “Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI)” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
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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
- Orientation and Mobility Specialist
- 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
- Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI)
- Rehabilitation Teacher
- Orientation and Mobility Therapist for the Blind
- Low Vision Therapist
- Global Mobility Specialist
- Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist
Tasks for “Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI)”
- 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.
- 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.
- Participate in professional development activities such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues.
- 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.
- Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals.
- Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).
- Obtain, distribute, or maintain low vision devices.
- Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.
- Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and propioceptive information.
- Train clients to use adaptive equipment such as large print, reading stands, lamps, writing implements, software, and electronic devices.
- Teach independent living skills or techniques such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management.
- Train clients to read or write Braille.
- 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).
- Assess clients' functioning in areas such as vision, orientation and mobility skills, social and emotional issues, cognition, physical abilities, and personal goals.
- 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.
- Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers.
- 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).
Related Technology & Tools
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- Piano glasses
- Lea grating paddles
- Braille label makers
- Finger puppets
- Color discs
- Dome magnifiers
- Feinbloom distance charts
- Lea symbols near vision cards
- Braille writers
- Braille laptop computers
- Near vision acuity charts
- Reading stands
- Pointers
- HOTV charts
- Check writing guides
- Large text keyboards
- Lea symbols 15-line distance charts
- Writing guides
- Illuminated cabinets
- Flashlight color filters
- Long canes
- Tactile maps
- Handheld magnifiers
- Night scopes
- Stop watches
- Copyholders
- Braille personal digital assistants
- Eye occluders
- Lea numbers 10-line distance charts
- Lea symbols 10-line distance charts
- Lea single presentation flash cards
- Braille embossers
- Signature guides
- Worthmore four-dot test devices
- Plastic eye models
- Cone adaptation test sets
- Bailey-Lovie Acuity Chart
- Amsler grids
- Contrast sensitivity test cards
- Needle threaders
- Anti-glare visors
- Penlights
- Lea crowded symbol books
- Lea symbols playing cards
- Astigmatism wheel charts
- Closed circuit television monitors
- Adjustable task lamps
- Snellen eye charts
- Lea symbols single symbol books
- Slicing guides
- Illuminated magnifiers
- Lea numbers near vision cards
- Lea numbers 15-line distance charts
- Rulers
- Flashlights
- Stand magnifiers
- Envelope addressing guides
- Lea symbols domino cards
- Stacking rings
- Lea symbols Massachusetts visual acuity test format near vision screeners
- Medical measuring tapes
- Monoculars
- Print readers
- Ai Squared ZoomText
- Axistive BigShot Screen Magnifier
- ZoomWare Screen Magnifier
- Microsoft Access
- Freedom Scientific MAGic
- American Printing House for the Blind Learn Keys
- American Printing House for the Blind Talking Typer
- Arkenstone Atlas Speaks
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office
- Internet browser software
- Dolphin Lunar