 Photojournalist and Documentary Filmmaker Dan Habib Joins IOD StaffThe Institute on Disability is pleased to welcome Dan Habib, director of the award-winning documentary film Including Samuel, as Filmmaker in Residence. After spending the last 20 years of his career as a photojournalist, most recently as the photo editor for the Concord Monitor, Habib is making the career change to pursue his passion: creating documentary films focusing on the critical issues at the intersection of disability and contemporary society.
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 Autism Summer Institute to Feature Amanda BaggsThe IOD will be presenting the tenth annual Autism Summer Institute on August 11-14, 2008, at the UNH campus in Durham, NH. This year's four-day Institute, "Emotion, Behavior, and Belonging," is open to anyone interested in learning more about Autism Spectrum Differences (ASD) from experts including persons living with ASD. Topics will include understanding the emotional experiences of living with ASD, interpreting the meaning of behavioral differences, and addressing confusion by teaching the unwritten rules of the social world.
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