Persons with Autism Learn Life Skills at the Supermarket
Everyone involved in the AutiSM at Work program learn from one another, from participants and SM employees to daily customers. Photo shows (back row, from left) Brad Gutierrez, Rhav Lomboy, JD Sagala, (front row, from left) SM Markets HR Head Dorothy Sobrevega, ASP President Mona Veluz, and Savemore Market AVP for Operations Cherry Concepcion. It was already three o’clock in the afternoon, and 18-year old Brad was supposed to be home by 12 noon. His worried mom began to think if teaching him to commute was the right decision. Brad Gutierrez is a person with autism (PWA), and that was his first time to travel by public transportation. As it turned out, it was one of t...