Everyone knows about Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone.
Bell’s father, Alexander Melville Bell, was a teacher of the deaf.
His method of teaching the deaf was called “Visible Speech.
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His preventative strategies for deaf marriage included removing barriers to communication and interaction with the hearing world.
Oral methods, the desegregation of education, and facilitating communication betweendeaf and hearing personsare a positive outcome.
Some historians point to this as his legacy just as much as his inventions.
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Bell AG.Upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race.
U.S. Government Printing Office; 1884.
