All occupations › Healthcare practitionersCan AI Replace Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists in 2026? Lower exposure. AI could handle about 37% of today's low vision therapists, orientation and mobility specialists, and vision rehabilitation therapists tasks by 2036, and there is a 6% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI both assists and takes over tasks.
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Timeline Year 2030 Headcount (2025 = 100)
101
Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
6% 2030 · 6% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
1.3 roles
0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 11% 2027: 12% 2028: 14% 2029: 17% 2030: 20% 2031: 24% 2032: 28% 2033: 32% 2034: 34% 2035: 36% 2036: 37% 20% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 101 2027: 101 2028: 101 2029: 102 2030: 101 2031: 101 2032: 101 2033: 101 2034: 101 2035: 101 2036: 101 101 Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line) Your survival map Not every part of your job is at the same risk. Tap a number to see what to do about each task.
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1 Teach cane skills, including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches. 2 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… 3 Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and proprioceptive information. 4 Design instructional programs to improve communication, using devices such as slates and styluses, braillers, keyboards, adaptive handwriting devices, talking book… 5 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… 6 Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems, such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices… 7 Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes. 8 Participate in professional development activities, such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues. Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Design instructional programs to improve communication, using devices such as slates and styluses, braillers, keyboards, adaptive handwriting devices, talking book…". Get visibly better at your human core: "Teach cane skills, including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Based on 21 O*NET tasks for "Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists" (SOC 29-1122.01). LLM alone: 10% of tasks; with AI tools: 45%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
