[stylist] Oralism?

[helene ryles]

Hi Angela,
Oralism is the system where the deaf are taught speech exclusively. As
aposed to allowing the Deaf to use sign language which is much easier
for them.
John Lee Clark, who used to post here is raised in a signing
environment. His english is better then mine. I was raised orally.
Signing would have helped me learn better, but any visual clues such
as signed supported english or Cued speech would have helped rather
then just having to rely on what was written down. I'm lucky my
written english didn't suffer more then it did and I was able to learn
things that way.
Oralism goes a long way and I feel it has done a lot of damage to deaf
education.

Helene


On 07/09/2009, Angela fowler <fowlers at syix.com> wrote:
> Out of curiosity,
> What is Oralism? I'm not familiar with what you're referencing.
>
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> Hi Lora,
> Cued speech a system of communication that makes traditionally spoken
> languages accessible by using a small number of handshapes (representing
> consonants) in different locations near the mouth (representing vowels), as
> a supplement to lipreading.
> It is not used much since the signing Deaf don't like it because it reeks
> too much of oralism. The strict Oral crowd pay it lip service but prefere to
> use purely oral methods.
> To me it seems a useful tool for learning speech and lip reading but the
> problem is when people use it as a stand alone system competing with sign
> language.
>
> Helene
>
> On 07/09/2009, LoriStay at aol.com <LoriStay at aol.com> wrote:
>> Forgot to ask this before:   What is cued speech?
>> Lori
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