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