ABSTRACT
This study aims at discussing the History of Education of the deaf out of the reading of four documents which report the “International Congress for the Improvement of the Destiny of the Deaf” (Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf) held in Milan, Italy, from September 6th to September 11th, in 1880, also known as the “Milan Conference.” In a series of conferences regarding the education thematic of the deaf, the aforementioned congress becomes the most commonly known one and, thus, remains a document-monument in the study field. From reading the documental corpus of such events, we sought to recapture how the construction of an implemented truth happened in Milan. To carry on such endeavor, we problematized how the philosophical and religious bases of that time allowed the best method of normalization for the education of the deaf. The analysis of the set of documents concerning the “Milan Conference” favors the discussion of matters that are still subjacent in many debates on the education of the deaf nowadays.
Keywords:
Education of the Deaf; Milan Conference (1880); Pure Oral Method