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