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