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