How do they match: Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists

  • Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists

  • Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist
  • Global Mobility Specialist
  • Mobility Specialist
  • O and M Specialist
  • Orientation Specialist
  • Orientation and Mobility Specialist
  • Rehabilitation Specialist
  • Vision Specialist

  • 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.
  • Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.
  • Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals.
  • Monitor clients' progress to determine whether changes in rehabilitation plans are needed.
  • 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.
  • Teach clients to travel independently, using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.
  • Teach self-advocacy skills to clients.
  • Train clients to read or write Braille.
  • 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 proprioceptive information.
  • 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 life skills or strategies to clients or their families.