Using recordable dog training buttons is a fun way to increase the communication that you already have with your dog. Now, you can actually learn how to teach your dog to talk with buttons. You don’t have to be a speech pathologist or dog trainer in order to begin building a new level of understanding about what your dog wants. If you’ve always wondered what your dog has to say, now is your chance to find out. This new training opens the possibility of dogs communicating more clearly with us and us gaining a greater understanding of how our dogs see the world. In a recent video, Stella used her soundboard ( a collection of pre-programmed buttons) to tell her owner by pushing multiple buttons in quick succession that there was something going on outside their home and that she wanted to go and see it. In short video clips, Stella utilizes her extensive vocabulary of words programmed into recordable buttons to express not only things she wants to do such as going to the beach, but also more abstract concepts like feelings and emotions as well as pairing together words. Christina Hunger has a viral Instagram where she is documenting her dog’s learning called “Hunger4Words” and a website with additional resources. Have you ever wished you could teach your dog to talk? We know our dogs understand a tremendous amount of language, but what if they could speak directly to us? Can you teach your dog to talk? In short, the answer is yes.Ĭhristina Hunger MA, CCC-SLP, a San Diego based speech-language pathologist, has discovered a way to train her dog to actually speak to her using adaptive speech technologies - speech buttons pre-programmed with words that her dog Stella can select between to communicate wants, needs, and thoughts.

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