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