oralismn.
/ˈɔːrəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈɔːrl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈɔrəˌlɪz(ə)m/ Now chiefly historical.
A system or method of teaching profoundly deaf people to communicate by the use of speech or lip-reading; (also) advocacy of this system in preference to the use of sign language, etc. Cf. oral adj. 2d.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > sign language > teaching of the deaf using sign language, etc.
manualism1883
oralism1883
manual method1902
1883 Amer. Ann. Deaf & Dumb Apr. 90 So far as oralism..is concerned.
1890 Science 28 Nov. 298/2 The attitude of some of the most prominent promoters of oralism is open to condemnation.
1963 Hist. Educ. Q. 3 219 As with the introduction of oralism for the deaf, it was necessary to establish a propagandist body before the entrenched English institutions would consider it [sc. the introduction of the Braille system].
1986 Nature 24 July 307/1 In many teaching institutions committed to strict ‘oralism’, signing was..firmly suppressed, with disastrous consequences for the deaf child's educational attainment.
1994 Time 3 Oct. 66/2 Oralism was only sporadically successful, and schools that subscribed to it or to related techniques found that students still learned ASL on the sly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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