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oralism

[ awr-uh-liz-uh m, ohr- ]
/ ˈɔr əˌlɪz əm, ˈoʊr- /
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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.

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Nearby words

  1. oral stage,
  2. oral surgery,
  3. oral tradition,
  4. oral-formulaic,
  5. orale,
  6. oralist,
  7. orality,
  8. orally,
  9. oran,
  10. orang
Compare manualism.

Origin of oralism

First recorded in 1880–85; oral + -ism
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

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