A Boy With A Magic Hat! How we view and handle differences shapes our outlook on the world and impacts our future. What would you do when faced with someone different from you--differences you don't understand? Would you choose kindness and embrace their differences? Would you try to learn from them and see what commonalities you share? Or would you reject, ridicule, or retreat from them? With one in every thirty-six children being diagnosed with autism and more than 35 percent of those children being nonverbal, at some point, they will be transitioning to traditional schools. It is more important than ever to create a nonjudgmental environment for our children. Our job is to make them feel safe, loved, secure, and cared for, with the hopes that it continues throughout their lives. In this story, Carson is a nonverbal autistic boy in second grade who transitions to a traditional elementary school. When faced with Carson's differences, what will his classmates choose? Let's go on this journey to see. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous--how well I know it. (Psalm 139:14)