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