Christina Hunger - Hunger for Words - Interspecies Communication - How Stella Learned To Talk

Christina Hunger is a speech pathologist and the creator of Hunger for Words, which is working at the fascinating intersection of animal psychology, speech pathology, and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).

Christina is known for her groundbreaking work in being the first person to teach her dog Stella to talk using a customized communication device and speech therapy techniques.

Christina has a B.A. in Psychology from Case Western Reserve University and a graduate degree in speech language pathology from Northern Illinois University, and has professional expertise in augmentative and alternative communication working with young children with significant delays in language development as an early intervention speech therapist.

She is also an author of a new book - How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog

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maybe one future version of making dogs use 1000 words, is like a BCI or Brain Computer Interface. The dog could have a BCI installed, which moves a mouse to select a series of words on a computer screen, and thus in ways like Stephen Hawking almost, compose entire conversations of many words without having to have a thousand actual buttons. Maybe that'll be where we'll go in the future, being able to basically have dogs text us or use messenger like apps to talk to humans and other animals.