Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
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).
of the working time. Estimate.
- 18%
- 5%
- 77%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h 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.
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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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 | 97%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 | 97%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 | 95%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.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
Where this job works
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