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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A philosophy of education for the deaf, opposed to manualism, that uses spoken language consisting of lipreading, speech, the process of watching mouth movements, and mastering breathing techniques. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From oral + -ism.

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