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Life may not have a universal meaning, but you can give it context.
Context is one of my favorite words. I've always been suspicious of absolutes. Perhaps also because my disability was imposed on me as a label, as something static that is simple. In reality, disabilities are the result of a person's interaction with their environment. I am writing about this reality, my reality, here. I put it in context, the context that I think is missing in society.
This also means writing about life issues. About what could be in the future and what no longer is. About today in context.
So don't expect the "disability issues" you might expect.
Being a parent. Being me. Being enough.
From the most honest parent community in Switzerland: an interview by Saphir Ben Dakon with Andrea Jansen
Saphir Ben Dakon is part of the editorial team for the internet platform #geschlechtergerechter, which has the character of a magazine. In her latest blog on parenthood, she interviewed Andrea Jansen, founder of the online medium "mal ehrlich".
You can read the interview on the #geschlechtergerechter website. Enjoy!
Experiences of discrimination: Reality for people with disabilities
Section in the magazine LEBENSSTARK of the Muscle Society
Saphir Ben Dakon wrote an article on the topic of discrimination in the specialist knowledge section. The illustration of discrimination was based on the example of the use of language in the support class initiative in the canton of Zurich. The text and an accompanying PDF can be found below.
Saphir Ben Dakon - Where do we stand with the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities?
In 2014, Switzerland signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Where do we stand 10 years after ratification? What does inclusion actually mean and how do we get there? What (still) needs to change, what barriers need to be removed and who has what responsibility? A conversation with Saphir Ben Dakon about the equality and participation of people with disabilities.
Seitemblicke - More inclusive perspectives
On the topic of inclusion and the 1st labor market with Saphir Ben Dakon
As an expert in communication and inclusion, Saphir Ben Dakon supports organizations, groups and individuals with their projects. Saphir talks to Jahn Graf and Fabienne Mathis about her personal career and her motivation for her current work. She vividly describes how ableist structures function in the education sector and work context and the approaches she uses to combat them in her work.
30 years VSLCH symposium - Welcome to Leadea Lines
Extreme After-Lunch Speaker Club: With Saphir Ben Dakon on the inclusive education system
To describe Saphir Ben Dakon as charismatic is almost an understatement: The inclusion and communication expert demonstrated with a power presence on deck that the ship of inclusion/integration cannot have capsized: It hasn't even really left the harbor yet!
Inclusive education is a fundamental right in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: there is no inclusion in segregated structures. There is a lifelong right to learning. With a smile, she sometimes wished "that opponents of inclusive education would make use of this right and change their perspective ..."
Much of the current education system creates barriers for everyone, not just for people with disabilities. It is time to remove these. Often they are neither challenged nor supported, but simply administered. This makes the commitment of all education professionals who are actively working to reduce educational discrimination in schools on a daily basis all the more valuable: a big thank you for this.
Source: Text from the Swiss Association of School Leaders.
The speech can be found in the blog post.
"mamibrennt"
Women's solidarity creates a community platform for working mothers
In her second blog article for the internet platform with magazine character #geschlechtergerechter, Saphir Ben Dakon interviewed the founder of the community platform "mamibrennt" Julia Panknin. She is a former victim of parental burnout and, as a journalist, speaker, business consultant and mentor, is committed to structures in which paid work and care work are compatible.
Enjoy reading the interview and thank you Julia!
Becoming a mother, being a mother
Children with disabilities are children. Therefore, parents of children with disabilities are also parents.
Saphir Ben Dakon is part of the editorial team for the #geschlechtergerechter internet platform with a magazine character. In her latest blog on parenting, she focuses on the topic of parenting children with disabilities. To this end, she interviewed a mother to gain an insight into this reality of life.
You can read the interview on the #geschlechtergerechter website. Enjoy!
"The BRK is not a panacea"
A discussion on the implementation of the measures in the canton of Zurich
In August, the book series ProSpectrum 2 published a book entitled "The CRPD in Switzerland". Within this publication, Saphir Ben Dakon, Barbara Egloff and Martina Schweizer wrote the article "Die BRK ist kein Allheilmittel" - Eine Diskussion zur Umsetzung der Maßnahmen im Kanton Zürich.
The article is available as an open access version on the website of the Swiss Center for Special Needs Education Foundation. We hope you enjoy reading the articles.
Podcast Education Minds - Didactic reduction and adult education
Saphir Ben Dakon - Inclusion through language and communication
People with disabilities often encounter ableism in everyday life.
By this we mean structural, discriminatory barriers, stereotypical thought patterns, social exclusion, hostility towards people with disabilities, positive forms of discrimination and much more.
Podcast host Yvo Wüest talks about this with Saphir Ben Dakon, communication and inclusion expert.
Interested? Then listen in.
Acceptance of Social Service Robots in the Hotel Industry
Marketing Review St.Gallen 4.2024 Service Management in the Age of AI and Robotics
A specialist article by Dr. Yves Staudt, Prof. Dr. Jan Mosedale and Saphir Ben Dakon on the topic of "Acceptance of Social Service Robots in the Hotel Industry" has been published in the Marketing Review St. Gallen issue on Service Management in the Age of AI and Robotics.
Service robotics is another of Saphir Ben Dakon's areas of interest, as her research is highly interdisciplinary. She wrote her Master's thesis with a grade of 6 on the topic of "Diffusion of professional service robotics to compensate for functional limitations and loss of function on the Swiss market".
I hope you enjoy reading this and find it interesting.