No, really! Dogs can be taught to recognize written words as cues.

By C. J. Puotinen

Training

Assistance dogs for people who have difficulty speaking would be wonderful candidates for reading lessons.

Curling up with a good book? Maybe your dog would like to read one, too.

Don’t laugh. If Bonnie Bergin, EdD, has her way, dogs all over the world will soon be reading – maybe not books and articles, but individual words or sets of words strung together. Now president of the Bonnie Bergin Assistance Dog Institute, the world’s only academic college that awards associate and master’s degrees in dog studies, Dr. Bergin originated the service dog concept when she founded Canine Companions for Independence more than 30 years ago. …

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