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