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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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Teach cane skills, including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches.Mostly human for now
- 02Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems, such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Train 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).Mostly human for now
- 04Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and proprioceptive information.Mostly human for now
- 07Assess clients' functioning in areas such as vision, orientation and mobility skills, social and emotional issues, cognition, physical abilities, and personal goals.Mostly human for now
- 08Teach clients to travel independently, using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.Mostly human for now
- 09Teach self-advocacy skills to clients.Mostly human for now
- 10Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers.People already use AI for this at work
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss1%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
28%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 32% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Teach cane skills, including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches.
- 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).
- Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and proprioceptive information.