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