From the Concord (NH) Monitor

Dan Habib, longtime photo editor of the Concord Monitor, has made a documentary that documents his son’s progress through school. Including Samuel will screen this fall. Samuel has a neurological disorder and uses a wheelchair and other wheeled devices to get around.

The Monitor runs an extended feature about the family that includes candid discussion about Samuel’s diagnosis and his father’s motivation in making a film.

Years ago for the Monitor, Dan chronicled early efforts to create inclusive classrooms in Concord schools. And yet he acknowledges in the film that Samuel’s condition forced him to face his own youthful prejudices. He had viewed people with disabilities like Samuel’s as “less smart, less capable and not worth getting to know.”

Now, as a father, he wondered: “Is that how the world sees Samuel?”

… “Once I accepted that Samuel was going to have a lifelong disability, the question became, where do we go from here?” he said. “We set out to create a positive vision for Samuel’s future.”

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