Oral communication is more effective when communication needs a human touch, establishing a direct relationship, maintaining secrets, reaching mutual understanding and avoiding complexities with oral consent. Managers usually prefer oral communication to written communication.
An oral report is simply the oral report of an activity done by a student. Appropriate at all times, but generally past the mid point of a course when the students have more content and technology background. ... Obviously common in any course teaching oral discourse or language.
Abraham Lincoln established this university in 1864 for people who were blind and deaf. He signed it and should be more well known for this accomplishment. :)