Growth of the oral method of instructing the deaf. : An address delivered November 10, 1894, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Horace Mann School, Boston, Mass. /
Bell, Alexander Graham,1847-1922.
Horace Mann School (New York, N.Y.)
Boston: : Press of Rockwell and Churchill.,
1896..
"Reprinted by permission, from the Annual Report of the Committee on the Horace Mann School, School Document, No. 12, 1895."
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First edition of one of Bell's important speeches concerning deaf education. The oral method (oralism as it is known today) involves the education of deaf students via oral language such as lip reading, speech, and imitating mouth movements and breath patterns of words. It bacame popular in the United States after the Civil War, especially when the Clarke School for the Deaf in Massachusetts began teaching it in 1867.
Includes bibliographical references.
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