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