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