Independence Training Program

By Dan Burke, 9 December, 2024

At left, Landon holds a microphone while Ciara and others smile and clap along with the music
Landon surprised the room when he sang a rendition of Shaboozey’s “Let It Burn” at Ciara’s graduation ceremony last week.

Landon began his training at the Colorado Center for the Blind a month after he graduated from high school. He’s from a small town in South Carolina. It’s the kind of town where everybody knows everybody else.

“Everybody had their idea of what I should do next,” he says. “But I wanted to improve some of my blindness skills and figure it out on my own. Coming here for training was like taking a gamble on myself.”