o·ral·ism

[awr-uh-liz-uhm, ohr-]
noun
the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing.
Compare manualism.


Origin:
1880–85; oral + -ism

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