The system of teaching profoundly deaf people to communicate by the use of speech and lip-reading rather than sign language.
（教聋人用说话和唇读来交际的）口唇语教学法
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.
Definition of oralism in US English:
oralism
nounˈôrəˌlizəm
The system of teaching deaf people to communicate by the use of speech and lip-reading rather than sign language.
（教聋人用说话和唇读来交际的）口唇语教学法
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.