“Society should accept us as we are”

Dana and Jörg Apel are married and have two children. Like their children, they are deaf. Both teach Sign Language: Jörg Apel is a freelance lecturer for German Sign Language (German abbreviation: DGS), e.g., at the University of Hildesheim, at the Hartwig-Claußen-Schule in Hannover, a school with a special educational focus on hearing and communication, and in various companies. Dana Apel is a pedagogical assistant at the education centre for the hearing impaired in Hildesheim (in German: Landesbildungszentrum für Hörgeschädigte).