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Shiva's Journey at ZABS Place: From Puzzle to Potential
September 2024
By Madison Harr
Meet Shiva. Shiva is a fantastic young man in our Talent-In-Training program. When he started his training at ZABS Place, Shiva’s speech was very limited so we focused on non-verbal tasks like counting puzzles, sorting hangers, and hanging clothes. This gave him the opportunity to focus his energy on demonstrating his abilities instead of on finding the right words.
We began to see his attention to detail and his talent for making sure everything was in the correct place. We expanded his tasks and his vocabulary grew as well. He started getting clockedin, logging in to view his daily tasks, and marking his progress –independently! He loves to read and use the computer and he’s always eager to learn new things.
Shiva works in our warehouse putting away bags of sorted clothing donations in their correct place. We also found that he loves to express himself through writing and he has beautiful handwriting!
Shiva has shown impressive growth in all areas since starting his training and there’s little that we’ve tried teaching him that he isn’t great at! As his training continues, we are excited to keep exploring other abilities and interests that Shiva may have.
If you have a local business and you need a talented hard-worker who has a great attitude, we’d love for you to be in touch with us about hiring a ZABS Grad. Help us make dreams of employment come true for Special Talent in our community. Your business will thank you!
