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