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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 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
- Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist
Tasks for “Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist”
- Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and 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).
- Train clients to read or write Braille.
- Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and propioceptive information.
- 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).
- Obtain, distribute, or maintain low vision devices.
- 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.
- 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.
- Teach independent living skills or techniques such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management.
- Monitor clients' progress to determine whether changes in rehabilitation plans are needed.
- 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).
- Administer tests and interpret test results to develop rehabilitation plans for clients.
- Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.
- Provide consultation, support, or education to groups such as parents and teachers.
- Teach clients to travel independently using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.
- 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 to use adaptive equipment such as large print, reading stands, lamps, writing implements, software, and electronic devices.
- Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.
Related Technology & Tools
- Astigmatism wheel charts
- Lea symbols 15-line distance charts
- Medical measuring tapes
- Near vision acuity charts
- Piano glasses
- Plastic eye models
- Copyholders
- Pointers
- Check writing guides
- Dome magnifiers
- Stand magnifiers
- Snellen eye charts
- Color discs
- Finger puppets
- Braille label makers
- Closed circuit television monitors
- Lea crowded symbol books
- Illuminated cabinets
- Lea numbers near vision cards
- Bar magnifiers
- Amsler grids
- Braille personal digital assistants
- Night scopes
- Flashlight color filters
- Stacking rings
- Lea single presentation flash cards
- Feinbloom distance charts
- Lea numbers 10-line distance charts
- Flashlights
- Bailey-Lovie Acuity Chart
- Lea symbols domino cards
- Penlights
- Stop watches
- Braille embossers
- Illuminated magnifiers
- Braille laptop computers
- Lea numbers 15-line distance charts
- Large text keyboards
- Adjustable task lamps
- Lea symbols playing cards
- Cone adaptation test sets
- Writing guides
- Print readers
- HOTV charts
- Lea symbols single symbol books
- Signature guides
- Worthmore four-dot test devices
- Braille writers
- Needle threaders
- Monoculars
- Reading stands
- Handheld magnifiers
- Lea grating paddles
- Lea symbols 10-line distance charts
- Slicing guides
- Rulers
- Long canes
- Contrast sensitivity test cards
- Eye occluders
- Anti-glare visors
- Lea symbols Massachusetts visual acuity test format near vision screeners
- Tactile maps
- Envelope addressing guides
- Lea symbols near vision cards
- Arkenstone Atlas Speaks
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Office
- American Printing House for the Blind Learn Keys
- ZoomWare Screen Magnifier
- Freedom Scientific MAGic
- Axistive BigShot Screen Magnifier
- Dolphin Lunar
- Ai Squared ZoomText
- Microsoft Excel
- Internet browser software
- American Printing House for the Blind Talking Typer