Summary On The Formation Of A Deaf Variety Of The Human Race By Bell

Bell tells Gallaudet students that “he believed that deafness was a horrible curse to the person who suffered from it.” He supports oralism than manualism even though he knows sign language. He grew up using spoken language and was an educator of the deaf. He can see that deaf child is dealing with difficulty to communicate with other people through spoken language and written language. He wanted the deaf people who are involved in the deaf community and to be sure they found their happiness. Bell can see that deaf are labeled as handicap, which he feels bad for them because they don’t know how use spoken and written language. He was afraid that the deaf people would increase the population of deaf by creating more babies and how it would affect the society so he uses several ideas to prevent it. …show more content…
His research and examined a lot of information from American schools for the deaf and wrote a book called Memoir Upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race. He found information about the American School for the Deaf that “there tendency of deaf people to marry other deaf people, the numbers of deaf people marrying other deaf people increase during the 19th century, and the increase would continue into the future unless drastic steps are taken to stop it.” Also, he found that deaf marrying deaf would create more deaf race and “would be a great calamity to the world,” including residential school for the deaf, deaf associations and organizations, deaf newspapers, education in sign language, writing in sign language, inaccurate ideas about deaf people, and deaf people is to strive to create a state, which all of his ideas isn’t correct. He believed the deaf world isn’t real but he believed that real world is full of hearing people. He wanted the deaf to learn uses spoken language to able to communicate with hearing