So hunger started looking for one but for her dog stella.
Augmentative and alternative communication devices for dogs.
Hunger 26 taught her 18 month old dog to use a special version of an augmentative and alternative communication aac system.
This is a community generated site dedicated to helping people teach learners to communicate using sound board augmentative and alternative communication aac devices.
These are all forms of augmentative and alternative communication or aac.
It is inspired by the work of christina hunger who demonstrated that it was possible to teach dogs to use a sound board to express their thoughts and needs.
Speech language pathologist christina hunger decided to combine her love for her catahoula and blue heeler mix and her passion for augmentative and alternative communication aac devices by.
These devices are often used with non verbal children who can press one of thousands of icons representing different words to express what they re thinking.
There are two types of aided systems basic and high tech.
An aided system uses some sort of tool or device.
Augmentative and alternative communication aac includes all forms of communication other than oral speech that are used to express thoughts needs wants and ideas.
No longer relegated to the restrictive domain of uber expensive and hard to use medical hardware today s aac technology is designed for anybody to be able to use.
Pointing to letters words or pictures on a board is a basic aided system.
These augmentative and alternative communication aac boards feature a series of buttons.
Hunger for words is for anyone interested in dogs speech therapy augmentative and alternative communication aac animal psychology or new ideas.
When you press the button for something like water you hear the word water.
Bunny the dog communicates with a series of programmed buttons.
Watch read and follow along on this exciting journey of teaching my dog to talk.
A pen and paper is a basic aided system.
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Alexis devine has gotten a rare look into the mind of her puppy bunny by using augmentative and alternative communication devices.