oralist
- noun
- /ˈɔːrəlɪst/
- Specialized
:
defensor del oralismo
- Many parents of deaf children choose an oralist approach to help their kids develop spoken language skills.
Examples
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Headlam, writing at the turn of this century, could not, of course, be expected to address the issue of the degrees of literacy and orality, and their peculiar Hellenic symbiosis, with the same nomenclature now regularly employed by oralists and historians of literacy.
Academic text (1991) -
The oralist explained the benefits of teaching deaf children to speak instead of using sign language.
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The research of "oralists" is not usually discussed in the major studies of contemporary literary theory, such as those described in Note 3.
Academic text (1992) -
As an oralist, she believed that children who are deaf should learn to lip-read for better communication.
Antonyms
How Speech-Based
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oralist comes from the Latin root oral meaning 'mouth', the same idea behind oral and orator. So an oralist is someone who focuses on 'speech' and 'lip-reading' rather than sign language.