Some animal cognition specialists say that Stella isn’t doing anything unique. She notices that something's different in the routine, and we'll talk about it,” Hunger says. “We'll talk about where she wants to go, what she wants to do. Two years later, she is using 40 different words. From that point on, Stella was using the buttons independently. The day after she said “play,” she said “water,” which corresponded with her water dish. The day after she said “outside,” she said “play,” the button for playing fetch with one of Stella’s balls. After about three weeks, Stella pressed the “outside” button on her own. Then she started barking and swatting at the buttons. Throughout the first few weeks, Stella stood near the buttons and looked up at Hunger. She pressed the button with her foot each time she took Stella outside. When the button was pushed, it played Hunger’s voice. She ordered the buttons, placed the first one on the floor of her house near the front door, and recorded herself saying “outside” on it.
And I saw these buttons that Learning Resources make pop right up on my screen.” “And I was actually really surprised when I could not find anything that I was picturing. So I researched dog AAC, using speech therapy with dogs-style communication devices,” Hunger says. So Hunger started looking for one, but for her dog, Stella. When you press the button for something like “water,” you hear the word water. Each button corresponds with a word, and can be represented with a label or image. These augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) boards feature a series of buttons. Hunger uses different kinds of talking keyboards with her clients. “When I was trying this for weeks, they would come over and they would see me modeling these words and they're like, ‘Has anyone done this?’” “A lot of my friends thought I was crazy,” Hunger says. Well, what if you could? Christina Hunger, a speech language pathologist based in San Diego, says it’s possible. Dogs are known as humans’ best friends, but it’s not like you can talk to them.
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