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Alexander Graham Bell s mission to teach the deaf to speak still harms the hearing-impaired today, say critics
Alexander Graham Bell s true passion, and the project he focused on his entire life and funded with his earnings from the telephone, was the education of deaf people. But according to author Katie Booth, the harm of oralism still reverberates today.
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Posted: May 16, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 16
In 1872, Alexander Graham Bell opened a school for the deaf in Boston called Vocal physiology and Mechanics of speech for deaf students, where he insisted on methods that he believed would teach deaf people to speak. (Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Weber is profoundly deaf and says she was mainstreamed in regular education classes for most of her schooling. She grew up in Wilkie, attending Norman Carter School and McLurg High School during the early 1960s and ‘70s. Her parents both taught in Wilkie. “My parents emphasized the arts during early childhood. They also took classes in deaf education at Minot State College in North Dakota in the summers to help further my language skills,” Weber says. Following high school graduation, Weber attended the University of Saskatchewan and obtained honours bachelor of arts degrees in English and philosophy as well as a BEd. At Edmonton she earned a master’s in library science at the University of Alberta, followed by a PhD from the University of Regina. She was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal for her work in arts-based language and literacy intervention with deaf students.
TORONTO A public school resource teacher and professor at the University of Alberta has been named as Canada’s first research chair in deaf education. The research chair position is part of the Canada Research Chair program, which aims to recruit top academic minds in the natural sciences, arts, engineering, humanities, health sciences and social sciences sectors. The post was a result of the federal government passing the Accessible Canada Act in 2019, which also included recognizing American Sign Language, Langue du Signe Quebecois, and Indigenous Sign Language as the “primary languages for communication by deaf persons in Canada.” Joanne Weber, who was born profoundly deaf, will be using her arts-based research approach to enhance educational experiences for deaf students.
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