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