'A wonderful book.' - Temple Grandin, author of Animals in
Translation An instant New York Times bestseller An incredible,
revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching
your dog to 'talk' from speech-language pathologist Christina
Hunger, who has taught her dog, Stella, to communicate using simple
paw-sized buttons associated with different words. When
speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger first came home with
her puppy, Stella, it didn't take long for her to start drawing
connections between her job and her new pet. During the day, she
worked with toddlers with significant delays in language
development and used Augmentative and Alternative Communication
(AAC) devices to help them communicate. At night, she wondered: if
dogs can understand words we say to them, shouldn't they be able to
say words to us? Can dogs use AAC to communicate with humans?
Christina decided to put her theory to the test with Stella and
started using a paw-sized button programmed with her voice to say
the word 'outside' when clicked, whenever she took Stella out of
the house. A few years later, Stella now has a bank of more than
thirty word buttons, and uses them daily either individually or
together to create near-complete sentences. How Stella Learned to
Talk is part memoir and part how-to guide. It chronicles the
journey Christina and Stella have taken together, from the day they
met, to the day Stella 'spoke' her first word, and the other
breakthroughs they've had since. It also reveals the techniques
Christina used to teach Stella, broken down into simple stages and
actionable steps any dog owner can use to start communicating with
their best four-legged friend. Filled with conversations that
Stella and Christina have had, as well as the attention to
developmental detail that only a speech-language pathologist could
know, How Stella Learned to Talk will be the indispensable dog book
for the new decade.
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