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