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