![]() ![]() What Christina created was a board of buttons, accessible by paw, labeled with various words, commands, and phrases that she and Stella use on a daily basis. She put her knowledge and theory to the test and came up with a way for Stella to use this tool to speak to her as well. Christina wondered whether dogs might be able to understand and communicate these commands in the same way as her students: using AAC devices. To an average dog owner, it’s evident that our canine friends gain an understanding of basic terminology or commands: sit, speak, shake, rollover. Through her work with non-verbal children, Christina used Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices to help her patients say words in a different way. As a trained speech-language pathologist, Christina used her knowledge in augmentative communication to bridge the gap between Stella’s tendencies and those of her young patients with delays in language development. ![]()
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