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Job Description
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.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1122.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists”.
Also Known As…
- Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
- Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (VRT)
- Teacher of the Visually Impaired
- Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI)
- Orientation and Mobility Specialist
- Orientation and Mobility Instructor
- Orientation & Mobility Specialist
- Mobility Specialist
- Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS)
- Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist
- Certified Low Vision Therapist
- Vision Therapist
- Vision Specialist
- Rehabilitation Teacher
- Orientation and Mobility Therapist for the Blind
- Low Vision Therapist
- Global Mobility Specialist
- Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist
Tasks for “Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist”
- Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.
- Administer tests and interpret test results to develop rehabilitation plans for clients.
- Obtain, distribute, or maintain low vision devices.
- Monitor clients' progress to determine whether changes in rehabilitation plans are needed.
- Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers.
- Participate in professional development activities such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues.
- Train clients to read or write Braille.
- Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).
- Teach clients to travel independently using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.
- 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).
- Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and propioceptive information.
- 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).
- Identify visual impairments related to basic life skills in areas such as self-care, literacy, communication, health management, home management, and meal preparation.
- Assess clients' functioning in areas such as vision, orientation and mobility skills, social and emotional issues, cognition, physical abilities, and personal goals.
- Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.
- Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals.
- Train clients to use adaptive equipment such as large print, reading stands, lamps, writing implements, software, and electronic devices.
- 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.
- Teach independent living skills or techniques such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management.
Related Technology & Tools
- Braille writers
- HOTV charts
- Lea grating paddles
- Print readers
- Rulers
- Amsler grids
- Needle threaders
- Eye occluders
- Bailey-Lovie Acuity Chart
- Lea single presentation flash cards
- Near vision acuity charts
- Adjustable task lamps
- Color discs
- Lea numbers 10-line distance charts
- Medical measuring tapes
- Braille laptop computers
- Lea symbols near vision cards
- Reading stands
- Stand magnifiers
- Signature guides
- Pointers
- Stacking rings
- Piano glasses
- Lea symbols 10-line distance charts
- Stop watches
- Copyholders
- Handheld magnifiers
- Flashlights
- Braille personal digital assistants
- Plastic eye models
- Check writing guides
- Lea crowded symbol books
- Envelope addressing guides
- Lea numbers near vision cards
- Tactile maps
- Large text keyboards
- Monoculars
- Closed circuit television monitors
- Long canes
- Feinbloom distance charts
- Cone adaptation test sets
- Lea symbols single symbol books
- Astigmatism wheel charts
- Finger puppets
- Writing guides
- Flashlight color filters
- Contrast sensitivity test cards
- Slicing guides
- Braille embossers
- Bar magnifiers
- Anti-glare visors
- Night scopes
- Illuminated cabinets
- Lea symbols 15-line distance charts
- Worthmore four-dot test devices
- Illuminated magnifiers
- Lea numbers 15-line distance charts
- Snellen eye charts
- Lea symbols Massachusetts visual acuity test format near vision screeners
- Penlights
- Dome magnifiers
- Lea symbols domino cards
- Braille label makers
- Lea symbols playing cards
- Internet browser software
- American Printing House for the Blind Learn Keys
- Microsoft Access
- Dolphin Lunar
- Freedom Scientific MAGic
- Ai Squared ZoomText
- American Printing House for the Blind Talking Typer
- Microsoft Word
- Axistive BigShot Screen Magnifier
- Arkenstone Atlas Speaks
- Microsoft Office
- ZoomWare Screen Magnifier
- Microsoft Excel