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Oral Education (N)

Oral education, or oralism, focused on teaching deaf children to communicate through speech and lipreading. Sign language was discouraged or actively forbidden. 

 

A Dutch historical video (date unknown) of teaching speech to young deaf children (click on the picture to see the video):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oralism#:~:text=Oralism%20is%20the%20education%20of,States%20around%20the%20late%201860s.