Nonetheless, "oralists" have long insisted that the best way to educate the deaf is to teach them spoken language, sometimes going so far as to suppress signing.

总之，这些都不是巧合。 然而，一些“口语拥护者”一直坚持，最好的方法是教失聪人群去“说”语言，有时甚至压制手势语的推广。