Provision of Orientation and Mobility Services in 1990, by Mark Uslan, published in the May 1983 issue of the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Volume 77, Number 5, pp. 213-215. Mark Uslan, the author of the article highlighted in this essay, was my instructor in the Peripatology Program at Boston College in 1978-79. Reading his article for the first time, I was stuck by the changing demographics of and the projected increase in the population of people with blindness and visual impairment that I, as a new orientation and mobility (O&M) specialist, was beginning to teach. My education at Boston College and my first-hand experience as an O&M specialist during the time that this article was written gave me insight into the population that was the focus of Mr. Uslan's article. personnel preparation program at Boston College prepared me to teach O&M to people with low vision and multiple handicaps. As a student teacher at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, Massachusetts, and later as an intern at the Ohio State School for the Blind (OSSB), I gained considerable practical knowledge on how to work with young blind adults with diabetes and children with visual impairments. For example, when I was assigned at OSSB to teach a young lady who was deaf-blind and fluent in American Sign Language (ASL), it was difficult to work with her effectively since I did not know ASL and did not have an interpreter. OSSB provided me with a wonderful mentor, and I learned how to communicate with the student. These experiences led to my teaching O&M for the Columbus Public School system in Ohio, and then at the Vision Center of Central Ohio, an adult rehabilitation center for people with visual impairments. In addition to providing information on the population with whom I was working, the descriptions in Mr. Uslan's article on the growing numbers of older adults with visual impairments and their need for rehabilitation services, including O&M training, were instrumental in establishing a focus for my doctoral studies. My dissertation was entitled, The Effects of Rehabilitation Training of Visually Impaired Older Adults on Self-efficacy, Depression, Activities of Daily Living, Attitudes about Blindness, and Social Support Networks. Upon completing my doctorate, I was hired as a regional consultant in aging for the southeastern United States by the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), the organization for whom Mr. Uslan worked at the time the article was published and still works for today. This article highlighted the economic times of the mid-1980s, the shortage of O&M specialists, and the increasing numbers of legally blind people, including young children under age 5 and people over age 65. Mr. Uslan discussed the need for an adequate number of O&M specialists to be trained to teach these legally blind individuals, and he charged agencies and schools for the blind with the responsibility of meeting their students' needs in the area of O&M. Twenty-five years after this article was written, these issues are still a concern of the field of visual impairment and blindness. …