Blind mother of 5 graduates from the university with honors with her guide dog

When a five -year -old mother from Tennessee received her university degree on May 9, she couldn’t see her family encouraging the audience, because she is completely blind.

Even so, when Amanda Judgeten, 47, crossed the stage to accept her title, Magna Cum Laude, from the Technological University of Tennessee, was safer than ever on her way forward.

“I am totally blind,” Guestten told News Digital in an interview. “So I have my guide dog by my side.”

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“The two guys for which I was sitting told me to follow them: we were a team. I am concentrating on strengthening all my hands and crossing the stage. I was thinking: ‘This is not the end. It is really the beginning of what follows”.

Juden, who recently became a grandmother, began his university trip almost 30 years ago, but had to postpone his studies when he had a baby from high school, and immediately went to work to keep his new family.

Finally he returned to higher education, but in 2020, after years of progressive vision loss of a condition called pigmentous retinitis, he literally found in the dark.

“I was totally blind without blindness skills,” Judetten said. “Over the years, I had taught me many skills to use my remaining vision, but not what to do without vision at all.”

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Determined to recover his independence, he enrolled in an eight -month program at the Colorado Center for blind.

“I thought, ‘I know that blind parents do their children’s lunch. I know that blind parents go to PTA meetings. I can do this. I just need to be close to a lot of other blind people,'” he recalled.

“I want to help people give the skills to find their voice.”

“Blind people are not sitting in their basements waiting for the end. They are living their lives, and I also wanted to do it.”

With his new adaptation skills and techniques, and a renewed sense of confidence, Judoten enrolled in Tennessee Tech in the autumn of 2022, looking for a title of professional studies with a concentration in organizational leadership.

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“It was great,” said Juden. “The instructors asked: ‘What are your needs? How can I make this accessible to you?’ They have been fantastic for doing that.

Now, the newly graduated judgen is advocating a greater acceptance and understanding of the blind.

“The blind man needs a voice,” said Juden. “I have a voice and I love using it. I want to help people give the skills to find their voice. We need more teachers and more people in the field that they believe in all the blindness of the blind.”

Then, plan to obtain a postgraduate degree in blindness rehabilitation and possibly even a doctorate.

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“I want to start offering services in assistance technology, Braille and the things I’ve learned and I’m fine,” said Juden. “I want to teach blind people as a vocational rehabilitation provider.”

Juetten has traveled to Washington, DC, to press on initiatives related to blindness and San Francisco to protest the shared travel drivers who deny the service to passengers with wheelchairs or service animals.

She is also a member of the Board of the National Federation of Blind of Tennessee and is former president of the Tennessee Association of Guide Dog Users.

His guide dog, Colonel, is always by his side.

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Juetten has the following message for anyone who faces blindness.

“You still have the same hopes and dreams,” he said. “All those things you wanted to do before being blind, you still want to do those things. So we find a way to do it.”