Katie Booth is the author of The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to end Deafness. (Submitted by Katie Booth)Bell developed a method of teaching speech to deaf people, and particularly deaf children, called visible speech. And so sign language just seemed, well, just out of control," she said. Dan Foley, who is deaf, attended an oralism school that taught spoken language and punished the use of sign language, he says. He doesn't teach sign language, but also doesn't discourage or punish the use of signing.

Source: CBC News May 16, 2021 08:00 UTC