ORALISM


Meaning of ORALISM in English

/awr"euh liz'euhm, ohr"-/ , n.

the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing. Cf. manualism .

[ 1880-85; ORAL + -ISM ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .