August 28, at exactly 5:30 pm, the door creaks open. A participant slips into a classroom at Changangkha Middle Secondary School — Bhutan’s first inclusive school. She bursts in laughing: “On the dot.

Five-year-old Jaslynn Gonzales walks confidently through the hallways of Shriners Hospital, her black Mary Jane shoes with glitter straps catching the light with each step. The determined ...