In America, we have adopted auditory speech, which is a monolingual approach focusing on the spoken and written forms of the majority language (English here ), approach to the education of our deaf children. We adopted this methodology for teaching the deaf because of the Milan Conference held in 1880. This conference was an excuse for the proponents of oralism to gain the support they needed to ban the use of the language of the deaf. signs in education. Their plot succeeded; the conference decided that sign language was inferior to spoken languages ​​and was not capable of enabling the type of learning needed (Lane, Hoffmeister, and Bahan 61). From this arise many false beliefs about sign language. For example, sign language will make the signer stupid, it will interfere with learning the spoken language, and it is not a real language. Thanks to numerous studies over the past 40 years, these misconceptions have been refuted. We have learned that there is a better way to educate our deaf students: bicultural-bilingual (bi-bi) educational methods. Among the consequences of the Milan Conference was the banning of the use of sign languages ​​in the classroom and thus making it possible. deaf people could not educate other deaf people. This eliminated the thriving bilingual education programs that were beginning to emerge. Now that the use of sign language was taboo in classrooms, the auditory method of teaching became the only solution. Which puts us in the sad state of deaf education we find ourselves in today. Due to the emphasis on speech and spoken language, many other aspects of education are neglected and are not understood by a deaf student. So we now have an education system that forces deaf students to try to learn using a language...... middle of paper ......al from Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 13.2 (2010): 133-45. Web.Knooks, Henry. “Measuring the quality of education: the participation of deaf children educated bilingually. » American Annals of the Deaf 145.3 (2000): 268-74. Web.Lane, Harlan, Robert Hoffmeister and Ben Bahan. A journey into the world of the deaf. San Diego, CA: DawnSignPress, 1996. Print. Mann, Wolfgang, and Chloe R. Marshall. “Creating an Argument for Use of Assessment for Sign Language: The BSL Nonsense Sign Repetition Test.” International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 13.2 (2010): 243-58. Web.Prbanic, Ljubica. “Sign language and education of the deaf”. Sign language and linguistics 2nd ser. 9.1 (2006): 233-54. Web.Snoddon, Kristin. “American Sign Language and Early Intervention.” The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue Canadienne Des Langues Vivantes 64.4 (2008): 581-604. Web.