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Healthcare · Updated Aug 2026

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.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
60/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
52/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence82/100
Task coverage86%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Teach cane skills, including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches.High
61
Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.High
73
Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and proprioceptive information.High
61
Assess clients' functioning in areas such as vision, orientation and mobility skills, social and emotional issues, cognition, physical abilities, and personal goals.High
68
Teach independent living skills or techniques, such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management.High
68
Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals.High
71
Train clients to use adaptive equipment, such as large print, reading stands, lamps, writing implements, software, and electronic devices.High
73
Identify visual impairments related to basic life skills in areas such as self care, literacy, communication, health management, home management, and meal preparation.High
74
Monitor clients' progress to determine whether changes in rehabilitation plans are needed.High
59
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).High
42
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).High
74
Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers.High
61
Administer tests and interpret test results to develop rehabilitation plans for clients.Medium
74
Participate in professional development activities, such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues.Medium
75
Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.Medium
51
Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems, such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).High
38
Teach clients to travel independently, using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.High
24
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Participate in professional development activities, such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues.75
  2. Identify visual impairments related to basic life skills in areas such as self care, literacy, communication, health management, home management, and meal preparation.74
  3. 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).74
  4. Administer tests and interpret test results to develop rehabilitation plans for clients.74
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Teach clients to travel independently, using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.01
  2. Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems, such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).02
  3. 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).03
  4. Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.04
  5. Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency50
Physical dependency57
Adoption pressure42
Labour-market resilience70
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence82/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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