Category: Lip Reading

The International Deafness Controversy of 1880

Robert Traynor Alexander Graham Bell / American Deaf History / Audiology / Deaf Activists / Deaf Education controversy / Deafness / Founders of Schools for the Deaf / Hearing Loss Cures / Hearing loss worldwide / History and HEaring Loss / History of Deaf Education / Lip Reading / Sign Language / Sign Language History

One of the first concepts learned in deaf education or aural rehabilitation courses is the controversy over sign language (manualism) vs. oralism.  There is an undertone that oralism is better than manualism. It has been the root of much discussion in the deaf community as well as among educational and medical professionals since the inception of formal sign language…

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The Pride of Baseball

Robert Traynor Audiology / Baseball outfielders / Deaf Baseball Players / Deafness / Deafness and Sport / Famous Deaf individuals / Hearing loss / Hearing Loss in Athletes / Immunizations and hearing loss / Lip Reading / Measles Hearing Loss / Teamwork - Deafness

1968 saw a number of terrible things such as the assassinations of Martin Luther King in April and Robert Kennedy in June, the disruption of the  Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, and other problem. But it was a special year for John and Sally Pride as they were expecting their first child. There…

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