TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hunger,Christina
TI  - How Stella learned to talk: the groundbreaking story of the world's first talking dog 
SN  - 9781529053913
U1  - 636.70887 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Bluebird Books for Life
KW  - Hunger, Christina
KW  - Stella
KW  - Human-animal communication
KW  - Dogs
KW  - Behavior
KW  - Training
KW  - Zoology
KW  - Communication avec les animaux
KW  - Chiens
KW  - M�urs et comportement
KW  - Dressage
KW  - Zoologie
KW  - zoology
KW  - aat
KW  - Pets
KW  - eflch
KW  - fast
KW  - ukslc
KW  - autobiographies (literary works)
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - "Includes tips on how to teach your dog" -- Cover; Originally published: New York : William Morrow, 2021; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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. So if dogs can understand words we say to them, shouldn't they be able to say words to us? Christina decided to put her theory to the test with Stella and started using a button programmed with her voice to say the word 'outside' when clicked, whenever she took Stella out of the house. Stella now has a bank of more than 30 word buttons, and uses them daily either individually or together to create near-complete sentences. This part memoir and part how-to guide chronicles the journey Christina and Stella have taken together
ER  -