oralism

noun

Etymology

From oral + -ism.

  1. borrowed from ōrālis
  2. suffixed as oralism — “oral + ism

Definitions

  1. A philosophy of education for the deaf, opposed to manualism, that uses spoken language…

    A philosophy of education for the deaf, opposed to manualism, that uses spoken language consisting of lipreading, speech, the process of watching mouth movements, and mastering breathing techniques.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for oralism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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