Cleveland, Katherine

Occupational & Low Vision Therapist Low Vision & Vision Rehabilitation Service The Wilmer Eye Institute The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Katherine Cleveland, OTR/L, CLVT developed the Occupational Therapy Low Vision Program at the Lions Vision Research and Rehabilitation Center at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. She currently manages the low vision occupational therapy program and provides full time low vision rehabilitation care through performing functional evaluations, home safety assessments and follow-up sessions in the clinic, home and community.

She obtained her BS in Occupational Therapy from the University of New Hampshire and completed internships at Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Medical Center in Bedford, MA in the Advanced Progressive Dementia Long Term Care Clinic and at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Acute Care Neurology. She worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital where she specialized in acute care neuro-rehabilitation, outpatient neuro-rehabilitation and low vision rehabilitation.

Katherine has authored the online chapter, "Home Safety Assessment for Clients with Low Vision" in the low vision text book, Principles and Practice of Low Vision Rehabilitation. She is an active participant in the Low Vision Rehabilitation Outcome Study. Katherine currently mentors occupational therapists that are interested in learning more about low vision rehabilitation and provides supervision for ACREP CLVT applicants. She is actively involved in providing lectures to occupational therapy students at universities, providing clinical fieldwork opportunities to occupational therapy students and educating ophthalmologic and rehabilitation staff about occupational therapy’s role in low vision rehabilitation.

For appointments with the Low Vision & Vision Rehabilitation Service, call: 410-955-0580