Rejecting the Exclusion of Sign Language in Deaf Education

[Francis Hult]

Earth Times

 

Historic Announcement Rejecting the Exclusion of Sign Language in Deaf Education

 

On July 19, 2010, the International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED) made important history by rejecting their resolutions from 1880 that banned the use of Sign Language in education for Deaf children and promoted the exclusive use of speech and residual hearing called Oralism. ICED also apologized for the detrimental effects that Oralism has had on the Deaf population for 130 years. 

 

The infamous resolutions from ICED Milan 1880 have been described by many scholars and historians as an attempt at linguistic and cultural genocide as as well as a systematic effort to institutionalize audism, the belief that to hear and speak is superior to being Deaf. 

 

Full story:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/press/language-deaf-education,1396580.html

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