Teaching tap signals to a deaf blind puppy. Teaching deaf blind dogs is no different than teaching dogs that can see and hear. It's a matter of marking desired behaviors with a treat and label which can be a verbal cue for hearing seeing dogs and blind dogs, a hand signal for deaf dogs. And a tap for a deaf blind dogs. Making physical contact is obviously necessary for dogs who can't see hand signals or hear voices. Here is Georgie learning the tap signal for sit. Piggy Lee is a pro of course so

Communicating with a diverse group of disabled dogs, in this case deaf and deaf blind dogs, is fun and rewarding. It might seem like a difficult challenge to teach deaf and blind dogs but the reality is that they are no different than any other dogs. We just use different cues to communicate what we are saying to them. Here are some examples of the differences in the way we communicate with our deaf, deaf blind, and hearing and sighted dogs. Summary- hearing and sighted dogs- verbal and hand sig