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Hello, I'm from Reno Nevada (the opposite end of the state from Las Vegas!). My only child (girl) has gone off to college this fall, my husband is retired so I have lots of newfound time! I have 1 cavalier, 6 yr old blenheim, Oliver. He has gone deaf and I'm working on teaching him ASL. He already knew signs from obedience but now I need additional signs for 'go potty', 'leave it', 'free' etc. If anyone out there can give me some help, I'd be very grateful.
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Chriss
 
Welcome! I have a deaf cavalier too and find they learn hand signs very easily -- and all the others pick them up too. Used to be all training classes taught hand signals as well as a voice command because dogs understand the signs more consistently, but now classes don't seem to do this for some reason, so consider yourself ahead of the game!

I have a bunch of links on training a deaf dog in the Library section:

http://board.cavaliertalk.com/showthread.php?t=14475

You can also use all the techniques of clicker training, using a small flashlight to flash instead of a clicker to click -- you 'load' it with positive meaning the same as a clicker, by flashing the light every time you feed a treat, then go from there (but don't use a laser pointer). See:

http://www.clickertraining.com/node/227

http://www.clickertraining.com/node/1846
 
icon_welcome Have only Cavs with "selective hearing" but I'm sure Oliver will pick up hand signals quickly-seems well accepted communication by dogs.
 
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