Augmentative And Alternative Communication Devices For Dogs
When you press the button for something like water you hear the word water.
Augmentative and alternative communication devices for dogs. Watch read and follow along on this exciting journey of teaching my dog to talk. These are all forms of augmentative and alternative communication or aac. A pen and paper is a basic aided system. There are two types of aided systems basic and high tech.
An aided system uses some sort of tool or device. Alexis devine has gotten a rare look into the mind of her puppy bunny by using augmentative and alternative communication devices. 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. Bunny the dog communicates with a series of programmed buttons.
Hunger for words is for anyone interested in dogs speech therapy augmentative and alternative communication aac animal psychology or new ideas. These augmentative and alternative communication aac boards feature a series of buttons. 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. We all use aac when we make facial expressions or gestures use symbols or pictures or write.
Each button corresponds with a word and can be represented with a label or image. Augmentative and alternative communication aac includes all forms of communication other than oral speech that are used to express thoughts needs wants and ideas. So hunger started looking for one but for her dog stella. Pointing to letters words or pictures on a board is a basic aided system.
Augmentative and alternative communication aac devices are cheaper more user friendly and more readily available than ever. 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. Hunger 26 taught her 18 month old dog to use a special version of an augmentative and alternative communication aac system.