Is signing the best method, or speech and speechreading. And what about cued speech (a visual representation of sound)? How did these methods come to be what was there history?
In the 1800's Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet went to England in order to find a teaching method to teach deaf students. First he visited the Braidwood School who's main methods were oral, but the school refused to share the exact methods they used. Thomas, however, soon met a person who taught the deaf, Roche Amboise Sicard, who was on tour demonstrating how he taught. Sicard used a method of signing. When Gallaudet came back he created the Hartford School now known as the American School of the Deaf. Sign language at that point was the main way of teaching.
Deaf schools began to spread due to the number of students becoming deaf teachers. Then in 1864 The National Deaf Mute College was established by Congress. This is now Gallaudet University. The Conference of Milan occurred shortly after the college was established bringing into question which method of communicating was most appropriate in teaching the deaf. Most countries except the United States used all oral methods leading to a conclusion that the oral method was better.
In the 1800's Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet went to England in order to find a teaching method to teach deaf students. First he visited the Braidwood School who's main methods were oral, but the school refused to share the exact methods they used. Thomas, however, soon met a person who taught the deaf, Roche Amboise Sicard, who was on tour demonstrating how he taught. Sicard used a method of signing. When Gallaudet came back he created the Hartford School now known as the American School of the Deaf. Sign language at that point was the main way of teaching.
Deaf schools began to spread due to the number of students becoming deaf teachers. Then in 1864 The National Deaf Mute College was established by Congress. This is now Gallaudet University. The Conference of Milan occurred shortly after the college was established bringing into question which method of communicating was most appropriate in teaching the deaf. Most countries except the United States used all oral methods leading to a conclusion that the oral method was better.
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