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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 use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and propioceptive information.
- Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.
- Obtain, distribute, or maintain low vision devices.
- Train clients to use adaptive equipment such as large print, reading stands, lamps, writing implements, software, and electronic devices.
- 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 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).
- Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.
- Teach clients to travel independently using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.
- 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.
- 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.
- Teach independent living skills or techniques such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
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- Needle threaders
- Plastic eye models
- Astigmatism wheel charts
- Amsler grids
- Eye occluders
- Signature guides
- Worthmore four-dot test devices
- Illuminated magnifiers
- Lea symbols domino cards
- Color discs
- Handheld magnifiers
- Large text keyboards
- Lea grating paddles
- Monoculars
- Braille embossers
- Rulers
- Finger puppets
- Braille writers
- Long canes
- Check writing guides
- Lea symbols playing cards
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- Anti-glare visors
- Stacking rings
- HOTV charts
- Lea symbols single symbol books
- Braille laptop computers
- Slicing guides
- Flashlights
- Bar magnifiers
- Lea numbers 15-line distance charts
- Night scopes
- Lea numbers 10-line distance charts
- Feinbloom distance charts
- Piano glasses
- Copyholders
- Penlights
- Tactile maps
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- Stop watches
- Contrast sensitivity test cards
- Flashlight color filters
- Medical measuring tapes
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- Pointers
- Print readers
- Stand magnifiers
- Illuminated cabinets
- Cone adaptation test sets
- Bailey-Lovie Acuity Chart
- Envelope addressing guides
- Reading stands
- Lea symbols 10-line distance charts
- Writing guides
- Dome magnifiers
- Snellen eye charts
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- Near vision acuity charts
- Lea symbols 15-line distance charts
- Closed circuit television monitors
- Freedom Scientific MAGic
- Microsoft Office
- Internet browser software
- Axistive BigShot Screen Magnifier
- Arkenstone Atlas Speaks
- Microsoft Excel
- Ai Squared ZoomText
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Access
- ZoomWare Screen Magnifier
- American Printing House for the Blind Talking Typer
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