1) Education for the deaf 2) Lipreading advocacy 
Oralism is the education of deaf students through oral language by using lip reading, speech, and mimicking the mouth shapes and breathing patterns of speech instead of using sign language within the classroom. Oralism came into popular use in the United States around the late 1860s, with the Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, Massachusett...
instruction of the deaf through speech rather than sign language
oralism A system of teaching profoundly deaf people to communicate with the use of speech and lip-reading rather than with sign language.
the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing. Cf.