Dan Habib's new film will challenge our perceptions of what it means to be intelligent
"Dan Habib's new film will challenge our perceptions of what it means to be intelligent."
-Academy Award winning actor Chris Cooper
If Micah Fialka-Feldman or Naieer Shaheed were born in the early 20th century, their IQ scores would have led them toward institutionalization and involuntary sterilization.
Micah was given an IQ score of 40 when he was 11. Today he co-teaches classes at Syracuse University.
Naieer has struggled with speech his entire life. Today he is a talented artist and included in general education classes at a public high school in Boston.
But unlike Micah and Naieer, most of the 6.5 million Americans identified as having an intellectual disability continue to live segregated lives based on early labels and a lifetime of low expectations.
My new film Intelligent Lives (working title, coming Fall 2017) will explore how our narrow views of intelligence have created unnecessary "ceilings" for people with intellectual disability, and how Micah and Naieer embody a new paradigm of what it means to be intelligent. The film features narration and a personal perspective from Academy Award winning actor Chris Cooper.
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