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