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Orientation & Mobility Specialist
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- The Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS or NOMC) provides in-person and virtual orientation and mobility instruction to blind, low-vision, or deaf-blind youth, adults and seniors from diverse backgrounds.
- The Orientation and Mobility Specialist (OMS) will conduct assessments and provide training that reflects recent and progressive travel and orientation techniques and trends, focusing on the student's travel needs in the home, work, academic sites and community.
- The OMS must have the ability to assess and teach to differing skill levels, as well as to train on varied mobility devices and options such as: monocular telescope, tints, GPS Apps and use (ie BlindSquare, Google Maps), Audible Pedestrian Signals and tactile maps (public streets, transit hubs, and public spaces and buildings).
- Orientation and mobility instruction may occur virtually (via Zoom), on-site at LightHouse facilities, in the home, workplace, academic sites or the student's community, including travel on all forms of local and regional public transportation and Paratransit.
- Additionally, the OMS must be able to balance their training schedule to accommodate week-long seminar training at Enchanted Hills Camp and Retreat; immersive training in San Francisco with our Guide Dogs for the Blind collaboration (orientation skill development) or travel to locations outside the greater bay area overnight to accommodate training for students who live outside the area.
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