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 practice.

“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 practice.” is a core task performed by Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists. Among the occupation's 21 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#21 most important). About 96% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Assist others to access additional services or resources. in Assisting and Caring for Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T2.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.005% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• Most common interaction: learning
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.4 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 97% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Teach cane skills, including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches. · importance 4.7
• Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems, such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs). · importance 4.7
• 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). · importance 4.5
• Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals. · importance 4.5
• Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and proprioceptive information. · importance 4.4
• Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes. · importance 4.4
• Assess clients' functioning in areas such as vision, orientation and mobility skills, social and emotional issues, cognition, physical abilities, and personal goals. · importance 4.3
• Teach clients to travel independently, using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises. · importance 4.3
• Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers. · importance 4.2
• Teach self-advocacy skills to clients. · importance 4.2
• Teach independent living skills or techniques, such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management. · importance 4.2
• Monitor clients' progress to determine whether changes in rehabilitation plans are needed. · importance 4.1
• Identify visual impairments related to basic life skills in areas such as self care, literacy, communication, health management, home management, and meal preparation. · importance 4.1
• 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). · importance 4.1

See all tasks on the Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {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 practice.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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}