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