Alexander Graham Bell was one of the founding leaders of oralism in the United States as well as a supporter of the eugenics movement. Due to Alexander Graham Bell’s beliefs he hindered the Deaf community by attempting to segregate them. He believed that deaf people should not marry each other and he attempted to create environments where deaf people could not be near each other. In essence his goal was to destroy sign language through his attempt of spreading the oral approach as well as minimizing the likelihood that deaf people would continue to be born.
Alexander Graham Bell created special day schools where there were only hearing teachers that would enforce a ban on sign language. Oralism soon became the most dominant method used in