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"All Methods--and Wedded to None": The Deaf Education Methods Debate and Progressive Educational Reform in Toronto, Canada, 1922-1945
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Ellis, Jason A. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2014
This article is about the deaf education methods debate in the public schools of Toronto, Canada. The author demonstrates how pure oralism (lip-reading and speech instruction to the complete exclusion of sign language) and day school classes for deaf schoolchildren were introduced as a progressive school reform in 1922. Plans for further oralist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Progressive Education, Educational Change
Communication Methods Used at Schools for Deaf and Partially Hearing Children and at Units for Partially Hearing Children in the United Kingdom.
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Jordan, I. King – American Annals of the Deaf, 1982
A survey of the methods of communication used at special schools and units for the hearing-impaired in the United Kingdom showed that the oral method is used in about 90 percent of the unit classes. Findings revealed a rapidly increasing trend to total communication. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Education of the Deaf in the United States. Occasional Paper #2.
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Moores, Donald F. – 1970
Considered in the paper, which originally was prepared for publication by the Moscow Institute of Defectology, are research and methodology related to education of deaf children in the United States. Described are deaf children's communicative problems, and defined are classifications according to varying degrees of deafness. Discussed is…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Communication Problems, Early Childhood Education, Educational Methods