What does RT stand for?

To ensure that the functional teaching strategies and rehabilitation goals would be continually responsive to her learning ability, motivation, and attitude, together we formally incorporated and documented Elayne's new responsibilities in the Statement of Method section of her Rehabilitation Teaching Individualized Written Service Plan, effectively committing Elayne and me to the process of measuring her progress and identifying the causes of her learning challenges.

William Levack NZRP MNZSP BPhty, MHealSc(Rehabilitation), Lecturer in Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit, University of Otago, Wellington

Foundations of Rehabilitation Teaching With Persons Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired.

These include rehabilitation teaching services and independent living skills training, information and referral services, peer and family counseling, and individual advocacy training.

Lewis relayed the evolution of the institution over the last 89 years in which it made the transition from offering optometric education exclusively to including master's degrees and certificates in four areas related to caring for people who are blind and visually impaired: low vision rehabilitation, orientation and mobility, blindness and visual impairment, and rehabilitation teaching.

William Levack, MHealSc (Rehabilitation), BPhty, Lecturer in Rehabilitation Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit

In conjunction with these duties, rehabilitation teachers facilitate the individual's and family's psychosocial adjustment to impaired vision; provide consultation, public education, and inservice training; teach problem solving and resource utilization (including adaptive equipment); and coordinate the implementation of the rehabilitation teaching service plan, with all appropriate case management and recording.

He coedited, along with his wife, Susan Ponchillia, the seminal textbook Foundations of Rehabilitation Teaching with Persons Who Are Visually Impaired.