What You'll Do

  • Teach cane skills, including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches.
  • 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.
  • Participate in professional development activities, such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues.
  • Obtain, distribute, or maintain low vision devices.
  • 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).
  • Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.
  • Administer tests and interpret test results to develop rehabilitation plans for clients.
  • Train clients to read or write Braille.
  • Teach clients to travel independently, using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.

Essential Skills

Active Listening 4.0/5
Speaking 4.0/5
Learning Strategies 4.0/5
Reading Comprehension 3.88/5
Social Perceptiveness 3.88/5
Instructing 3.88/5
Service Orientation 3.88/5
Writing 3.75/5
Active Learning 3.75/5
Monitoring 3.75/5
Critical Thinking 3.5/5
Complex Problem Solving 3.5/5

Career Fit Overview

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Top passions

  • Helper: Supporting people and making a difference matters to you.
  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.
  • Analyst: Investigating problems and finding patterns keeps you engaged.

Common styles

Concern for Others, Integrity, Dependability, Independence, Adaptability/Flexibility

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Expression 4.12/5
Oral Comprehension 4.0/5
Written Comprehension 4.0/5
Problem Sensitivity 4.0/5
Written Expression 3.88/5
Speech Clarity 3.75/5
Deductive Reasoning 3.62/5
Speech Recognition 3.62/5

Technologies & Tools

Ai Squared ZoomText Amazon Web Services AWS software American Printing House for the Blind Learn Keys American Printing House for the Blind Talking Typer Arkenstone Atlas Speaks Axistive BigShot Screen Magnifier Dolphin Lunar Freedom Scientific MAGic Internet browser software Microsoft Access Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office software Microsoft Outlook Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Visio Microsoft Word Operating system software Oracle Database Oracle Hyperion Oracle Java

Work Environment & Style

Common Styles for This Career

  • Concern for Others (High importance: 4.78/5)
  • Integrity (High importance: 4.57/5)
  • Dependability (High importance: 4.48/5)
  • Independence (High importance: 4.43/5)
  • Adaptability/Flexibility (High importance: 4.3/5)

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How to Become One

This career requires extensive preparation, typically including a graduate degree (Master's or Doctoral) and several years of experience. Most professionals in this field have invested significant time in education and training.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

Blind Orientation and Mobility Therapist (Blind O and M Therapist) Certified Low Vision Therapist (CLVT) Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS) Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (CVRT) Global Mobility Specialist Low Vision Therapist Mobility Professional Mobility Specialist Orientation and Mobility Instructor (O and M Instructor) Orientation and Mobility Specialist (O and M Specialist) Orientation Specialist Rehabilitation Specialist Rehabilitation Teacher Rehabilitation Therapist Students with Visual Impairments Teacher (TVI) Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (VRT) Vision Specialist Vision Therapist Visually Impaired Teacher (TVI)