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