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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
Also Known As…
- 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 “Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists”
- 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.
- Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).
- Administer tests and interpret test results to develop rehabilitation plans for clients.
- Train clients to read or write Braille.
- 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).
- 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 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.
- Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals.
- Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.
- Participate in professional development activities such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues.
- Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers.
- 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.
- Obtain, distribute, or maintain low vision devices.
- Teach cane skills including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches.
- 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.
- Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.
Related Technology & Tools
- Anti-glare visors
- Cone adaptation test sets
- Braille laptop computers
- Reading stands
- Signature guides
- Copyholders
- Lea symbols domino cards
- Pointers
- Tactile maps
- Envelope addressing guides
- Lea symbols single symbol books
- Writing guides
- Eye occluders
- Check writing guides
- Near vision acuity charts
- Amsler grids
- Contrast sensitivity test cards
- Rulers
- HOTV charts
- Flashlights
- Braille label makers
- Finger puppets
- Stand magnifiers
- Bailey-Lovie Acuity Chart
- Worthmore four-dot test devices
- Penlights
- Feinbloom distance charts
- Closed circuit television monitors
- Needle threaders
- Braille writers
- Astigmatism wheel charts
- Lea grating paddles
- Stacking rings
- Flashlight color filters
- Lea single presentation flash cards
- Piano glasses
- Braille personal digital assistants
- Lea numbers 10-line distance charts
- Lea symbols Massachusetts visual acuity test format near vision screeners
- Handheld magnifiers
- Stop watches
- Lea symbols playing cards
- Monoculars
- Lea symbols 10-line distance charts
- Night scopes
- Lea numbers near vision cards
- Lea crowded symbol books
- Lea symbols near vision cards
- Bar magnifiers
- Lea symbols 15-line distance charts
- Braille embossers
- Print readers
- Color discs
- Long canes
- Adjustable task lamps
- Medical measuring tapes
- Slicing guides
- Lea numbers 15-line distance charts
- Dome magnifiers
- Snellen eye charts
- Illuminated cabinets
- Plastic eye models
- Large text keyboards
- Illuminated magnifiers
- ZoomWare Screen Magnifier
- American Printing House for the Blind Learn Keys
- Axistive BigShot Screen Magnifier
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Internet browser software
- Ai Squared ZoomText
- American Printing House for the Blind Talking Typer
- Microsoft Word
- Dolphin Lunar
- Freedom Scientific MAGic
- Arkenstone Atlas Speaks