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