Definition of oralism in English:
oralism
noun ˈɔːr(ə)lɪz(ə)mˈôrəˌlizəm
mass nounThe system of teaching profoundly deaf people to communicate by the use of speech and lip-reading rather than sign language.
Example sentencesExamples
- Elizabeth Peet, dean of women at Gallaudet College, was more colorful in her criticism of oralism's impact on Sign Language.
- The chapter, in fact, encompasses many different issues: evolutionary theory, eugenics, oralism and the Milan Congress of 1880.
- The Russian response to oralism differed in important ways from that in Europe and America, revealing a more complex understanding of Deaf people's status in society, and of cultural Deafness.
- The early twentieth century brought discord to the Deaf community in the form of oralism.
- The first was published in 1908 by J. Schuyler Long, a principal at the Iowa School for the Deaf and an opponent of pure oralism.