Bill Collins Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 26 May 2005 Location: England Posts: 11642
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| Posted: 16 July 2026 at 6:35am | IP Logged | 1
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Eric, i found that lot's of eye contact and smiles along with the hand gestures help, which are visual clues you probably used unthinking when she could hear along with plenty of patience. Even old dog's are quick learners and soon adapt. Case in point...we went on holiday with our first deaf dog not long after her blind companion died. On the first day she soon mapped out the floor layout of the chalet, the next day we had to move into the adjoining chalet as the boiler broke, it was exactly the same layout but a mirror image, initially she went up the corner where the tv was as that's whe the door had been, but within a couple oh hours she'd got it all worked out. Adding new hand gestures for certain things will help, and as i said they learn fast and adapt.
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