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A woman wearing a blue graduation cap and gown walks down a tree-lined campus sidewalk holding hands with two young children. She wears colorful stoles, including one embroidered with “Jaclyn Gutierrez” and “MSU Denver.” A little girl in a purple unicorn shirt walks on her left, playfully holding a graduation tassel string, while a young boy in a navy blue polka-dotted shirt and khaki shorts walks on her right, pointing ahead excitedly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInhDXcUjfg
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VIDEO: Her autistic son needed help, so she became an expert

Jaclyn Gutierrez left a career in banking to pursue speech therapy and advocate for Spanish-speaking families like her own.

A woman wearing a blue graduation cap and gown walks down a tree-lined campus sidewalk holding hands with two young children. She wears colorful stoles, including one embroidered with “Jaclyn Gutierrez” and “MSU Denver.” A little girl in a purple unicorn shirt walks on her left, playfully holding a graduation tassel string, while a young boy in a navy blue polka-dotted shirt and khaki shorts walks on her right, pointing ahead excitedly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInhDXcUjfg

Polina Saran

If finding a career you love is hard, leaving it behind is even harder. No one knows this better than Jaclyn Gutierrez. After struggling to find support for her son Phillip, who was diagnosed with autism at age 4, she left behind an eight-year career in banking that she loved.

“When we got dismissed from early intervention (due to aging out), I made the decision that if no one was going to help my son, I was going to do it,” said Gutierrez, a new graduate of the the Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences program at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

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