What Are The Arguments Against Deaf Education
From the ancient times and even today Deaf education has had arguments against which method is right or wrong. No matter which way the tides turned there have been important people there to help guide the Deaf educations along.
We will start with the great philosopher Aristotle. Now I know what you are thinking, why would I talk about Aristotle when it comes to Deaf education? It has been said that he is the first person ever recorded to have talked about Deaf culture. Even though he is a great philosopher he isn't always a positive person especially when it comes to the Deaf education system. He had theorized that people could only learn through listening to spoken language and that because Deaf people are unable to hear, they must be unable to learn entirely. Due to his powerful influence over people, the Deaf eventually were denied fundamental rights. Some of those rights were being able to own or buy land, get legally wed, and were deemed as “non-persons” and forced to have guardians with them. After some 2,000 years Aristotle’s theory was disputed during the renaissance when some scholars attempted to educate Deaf people for the first time and succeeded. Through the attempts it marked the creation of a signed language. …show more content…
The next person we are going to talk about is Juan Pablo Bonet who was a Spanish priest.
Bonet was seen as a pioneer for the education of the Deaf due to his successful methods in educating them. By using the methods from Pedro Ponce de Leon, Bonet was inspired to build upon those teachings and focused on writing, reading, lipreading, and manual signing. By using these methods Bonet succeeded in making the easiest and most successful method for improving verbal and nonverbal communication for the Deaf. With all his success in educating the Deaf with his methods Bonet became part of the modern history of sign
language.
Anton Deusing
Finally we come to Abbe Charles-Michel de L’Epee, who could arguably be the most influential person when talking about Deaf education because before 1750 organized deaf education was non-existent. L’Epee was a french Catholic priest who opened the first public free deaf school in 1771 which came to be the National Institute for Deaf-Mutes. Due to having Deaf children from all over France come to the school each came into the school with their own home signs. L'Epee used what he had learned from the children and utilized them to help teach the children. Soon these signs became the standard of sign language that was taught to the children in the school. He is revered as the “Father of the Deaf” because of the 21 schools he established and all for the Deaf.
We will start with the great philosopher Aristotle. Now I know what you are thinking, why would I talk about Aristotle when it comes to Deaf education? It has been said that he is the first person ever recorded to have talked about Deaf culture. Even though he is a great philosopher he isn't always a positive person especially when it comes to the Deaf education system. He had theorized that people could only learn through listening to spoken language and that because Deaf people are unable to hear, they must be unable to learn entirely. Due to his powerful influence over people, the Deaf eventually were denied fundamental rights. Some of those rights were being able to own or buy land, get legally wed, and were deemed as “non-persons” and forced to have guardians with them. After some 2,000 years Aristotle’s theory was disputed during the renaissance when some scholars attempted to educate Deaf people for the first time and succeeded. Through the attempts it marked the creation of a signed language. …show more content…
The next person we are going to talk about is Juan Pablo Bonet who was a Spanish priest.
Bonet was seen as a pioneer for the education of the Deaf due to his successful methods in educating them. By using the methods from Pedro Ponce de Leon, Bonet was inspired to build upon those teachings and focused on writing, reading, lipreading, and manual signing. By using these methods Bonet succeeded in making the easiest and most successful method for improving verbal and nonverbal communication for the Deaf. With all his success in educating the Deaf with his methods Bonet became part of the modern history of sign
language.
Anton Deusing
Finally we come to Abbe Charles-Michel de L’Epee, who could arguably be the most influential person when talking about Deaf education because before 1750 organized deaf education was non-existent. L’Epee was a french Catholic priest who opened the first public free deaf school in 1771 which came to be the National Institute for Deaf-Mutes. Due to having Deaf children from all over France come to the school each came into the school with their own home signs. L'Epee used what he had learned from the children and utilized them to help teach the children. Soon these signs became the standard of sign language that was taught to the children in the school. He is revered as the “Father of the Deaf” because of the 21 schools he established and all for the Deaf.