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