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In the 1870s, Alexander Graham Bell and Edward Miner Gallaudet, both prominent US figures in deaf education, had been debating the effectiveness of oral-only education versus an education that utilises sign language as a means of visual communication, culminating in the 1880 Milan Conference that passed eight resolutions on deaf education.
In relation to the early 16th-century oralism in Spain, 19th-century oralists viewed oral language as a superior form of communication. [2] Gardiner Green Hubbard, [8] Horace Mann, [2] Samuel Gridley Howe [2] and Alexander Graham Bell [10] were popular supporters of oralism and its impact on deaf education and services. Until the end of the ...
Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone. New York: Harry N. Abrahms, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0-8109-4005-1. Groundwater, Jennifer. Alexander Graham Bell: The Spirit of Invention. Calgary: Altitude Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1-55439-006-0. Mackay, James. Sounds Out of Silence: A life of Alexander Graham Bell ...
The 1939 film The Story of Alexander Graham Bell was based on his life and works. [233] Eyewitness No. 90 A Great Inventor Is Remembered, a 1957 NFB short about Bell. The 1965 BBC miniseries Alexander Graham Bell starring Alec McCowen and Francesca Annis. The 1992 film The Sound and the Silence was a TV film.
A model figure for oralism and against the usage of sign language was Alexander Graham Bell, who created the Volta Bureau in Washington, D.C. to pursue the studies of deafness. Two other Americans who encouraged the founding of oralist schools in the United States were Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe , who travelled to Germany to see their ...
Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Alexander Graham Bell" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Association was originally created as the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (AAPTSD). In 1908 it merged with Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Bureau (founded in 1887 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge relating to the deaf"), and was renamed as the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf in 1956 at the suggestion of Mrs. Frances Toms, the ...
The oral movement took off in full swing at the Milan Conference of 1880 in which Alexander Graham Bell declared oral methods superior to manual methods. After the conference, schools all around Europe and the United States switched to using speech and lipreading, banning all sign language from the classroom.