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