Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
In short: today's best AI models could do about 18% of this job's working time (projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index) if the work were set up for them, and about the same by the end of 2028 if progress keeps its long-run pace. The people and hands-on work, about 82% of the time, stays with people.
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.
$100,330 a year (for the broader BLS group this job sits in).
A typical 40-hour week
Not yet reviewed task by task- AI could take on7 h
- A person checks AI's work0 h
- Desk work AI can't do yet0 h
- Stays with people33 h
Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists, now: of a 40-hour week, AI could take on 7 hours, 0 hours become checking its work, 0 hours are desk work it can't do yet, and 33 hours stay with people.
The largest pieces: Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes (about 2 h); Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers (about 1 h); Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals (about 1 h).
Estimates for a typical week of this job, if progress keeps its long-run pace, counting work the best models finish four times in five. Every task is below.
of the working time. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- 18%
- 5%
- 77%
of the work: Anthropic's measure of what people already bring to Claude at work (2025). It counts help with part of a task, so it can be higher than the share within reach.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
Change assumptionsHide assumptionsLong-run pace, four in five
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 2.4 work days long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 17%. Today's estimate: 18%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
Measured use over time
Of the Claude.ai conversations Anthropic sampled and tied to a work task, no reportable share went to this job's tasks in May 2026; 0 of its 21 tasks showed up. Within each of Anthropic's methods, never across a change: 0.029% to 0.049% (released February and March 2025); 0.019% to 0.023% (August 2025 to February 2026).
Each release
| Conversations | Share | Rank | Tasks seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Released February 2025 | 0.029% | 366 of 708 | 2 of 21 |
| Released March 2025 | 0.049% | 274 of 703 | 4 of 21 |
| The week of Aug 4, 2025 (released September 2025) | 0.019% | 376 of 655 | 3 of 21 |
| The week of Nov 13, 2025 (released January 2026) | 0.023% | 372 of 672 | 3 of 21 |
| The week of Feb 5, 2026 (released March 2026) | 0.023% | 376 of 677 | 2 of 21 |
| April 2026 (released June 2026) | none | n/a | 0 of 21 |
| May 2026 (released June 2026) | none | n/a | 0 of 21 |
Measured, not estimated: Anthropic's samples of Claude.ai conversations, each tied by a model to an O*NET task, from the Anthropic Economic Index. It says where Claude's use goes, not how much of this job's working time it covers, so it is not on the same scale as the reach above. The releases differ in their sample, their classifier and the smallest share they report (the June 2026 file rounds each task to a hundredth of a percent, so a smaller task reads as none), which is why a change of method starts a new line. At least 96% of each older release's task-tied use matched this site's tasks, and all of the newest. Claude.ai only, so use through other tools and other companies' models is not in it. Every job ranked.
Robots and the physical work
Anthropic rates 50% of this job's working time as physical work. For 0% of the working time, a robot has been shown doing most of the task somewhere. 0.00 of 3.
- Not physical 50%
- No robot shown 50%
Anthropic's rating, not this site's estimate: Claude Opus 5, searching the web, rated each physical O*NET task by the kind of setting in which a robot it could cite (deployed, sold or demonstrated) does most of the task, weighted by its own estimate of each task's share of the time (What work can robots do?, September 30, 2026, data CC BY 4.0; every job ranked). A robot shown somewhere is not a robot in your building: cost, setup and safety decide that. The share within reach on this page still counts no body work. The robot behind each rated task is under the task below.
The tasks
Sorted by . 21 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teach clients to travel independently, using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.Done more than monthly by most who do it. Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 17% | 1.7 h50 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| 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).Done daily by most who do it. Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 16% | 1.7 h50 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Teach cane skills, including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches.Done daily by most who do it. Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 14% | 1.3 h38 min to 2.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Assess clients' functioning in areas such as vision, orientation and mobility skills, social and emotional issues, cognition, physical abilities, and personal goals.Done more than weekly by most who do it. Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 9% | 1.7 h50 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and proprioceptive information.Done more than weekly by most who do it. Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 9% | 50 min38 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Teach independent living skills or techniques, such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management.Done more than weekly by most who do it. Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 6% | 1.3 h38 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 38 min17 min to 1.3 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers.Done more than weekly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 4% | 1.3 h38 min to 2.5 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Teach self-advocacy skills to clients.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 4% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 3% | 1.3 h38 min to 2.5 h | 100%Half by now | |
| 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).Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 2% | 1.7 h50 min to 2.8 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Monitor clients' progress to determine whether changes in rehabilitation plans are needed.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 2% | 33 min17 min to 1.1 h | 100%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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Questions about this job
- How much of the work of Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists is within reach of AI now?
- An estimated 18% of the working time is within reach of AI models now and 18% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five. Within reach means a model could finish work that long at that reliability. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
- Which tasks of Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists come within reach first?
- Weighted by the time each takes, the tasks with the most within reach now (projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index) are: Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes (100% of the task's time now); Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers (100% of the task's time now); and Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals (100% of the task's time now).
- Which tasks of Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists stay with people?
- Tasks that are people work or body work are not counted as within reach at any date. The largest: Teach clients to travel independently, using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises; 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); and Teach cane skills, including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches. Together such tasks are about 82% of the working time.
- Do people already use AI for the work of Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists?
- In the Claude.ai conversations Anthropic sampled for May 2026, no reportable share went to this job's tasks. Anthropic's labor market measure puts the share of the job's tasks seen in real Claude use at work at 1%. These are measures of use, not of how much of the work AI could finish, and they cover Claude only.
- Can robots do the physical work of Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists?
- Anthropic's robot exposure rating (September 2026) finds 50% of the working time is physical work, and that a robot has been shown doing most of the task, somewhere, for 0% of the working time. Its index is 0.00 of 3. A robot shown somewhere is not one in every workplace; this site's own estimates still count no physical work as within reach.
- How is this estimated?
- From the 21 tasks O*NET lists for the occupation, each with an estimated length checked against GDPval and a share of the working time, each classed as desk, people or body work, and METR's measurements of how long a task the best AI models can finish, carried forward to the date from the latest, Claude Mythos Preview (early) in April 2026. Data checked November 10, 2026.
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