Included with the course is the Book and the training kit

Everything you need to train your dog to be your Hearing Assistance Dog.

Included is the Training Your Hearing Assistance Dog book,
Kitchen Timer,
Recordable Sound Button,
target stick,
Portable Door Bells and
3 spot markers.

You might need a few more items in your training journey like boxes and small tables, an app for sounds on your phone, but they are cheap and easily found.

Please allow up to 2 weeks to receive the book and kit

Course curriculum

  • 01

    What You Need to Know

  • 02

    Factors In Training A Hearing Assistance Dog

    • Self-control for service dogs

    • Identifying Stress in a Hearing Assistance Dog

    • Intelligent Disobedience and Cognition

    • Training Plans

    • Rudiments - Are You Ready?

    • Source of Motivation

    • Toy Motivation

    • Who's Your Daddy?

    • Teaching the SideKick

    • Sound and the SideKick

    • Follow My Fingers

    • Fast and Furious Fingers

    • The Beginnings of Persistence and Industriousness

    • Shaping an Alert Behavior

    • Adding Movement To Sound
  • 03

    Are You Ready?

    • Introduction

    • Pattern Games 1 – 3

    • Creating Attention

    • Hand Touch

    • Ten Treat

    • You Pick!

    • I See Spots
  • 04

    Reading Your Dog

    • Introduction

    • Thresholds and Trigger Stacking

    • Friend or Foe

    • Expectations

    • Observing The Obvious

    • Observing the Obvious Game

    • Beyond Patience

    • Seeking Perfection

    • I Gotcher Back

    • Take A Seat
  • 05

    Intelligent Disobedience

    • Introduction

    • Choice

    • Making Decisions and Choices

    • Pick It Up, Put It Down - a Match To Sample Game

    • Relationship Based Dog Training

    • Teaching Yes and No

    • Life Has Simple Solutions

    • Rags and Muffins

    • Flirt Pole and Prediction
  • 06

    Anatomy of an Alert Behavior

    • Ask Permission

    • Target Stick

    • Are You Sure I Said "Break"

    • Asking Permission and the SideKick
  • 07

    Different Alert Behaviors

    • Introduction

    • The Paw Goes Here

    • I See Sound

    • Easy Button

    • Put Your Paw On My Shoulder

    • Paw Target

    • SMACK IT

    • RING MY BELL

    • STOMP IT
  • 08

    Creating A Persistent Alert Behavior

    • Are You A Gambler With Sound

    • Follow That Masked Man

    • I Missed It

    • Focus Forward

    • Bop!

    • Hold It Still

    • Shake Your Booty

    • Hold The Wall

    • Shell Bucket Match
  • 09

    Room To Room Alerting

    • Back and Forth

    • Four Hands Sitting

    • Four Hands Standing

    • Around a Barrier Alert

    • Walk in Patterns

    • You Can't Catch Me

    • Search In Motion

    • Find Me

    • Go Over There
  • 10

    More Back and Forth Alerting

    • Treat Toss Basketball

    • Toss and Turn

    • Toss and Turn Twins

    • Toss and Turn Corners

    • Toss and Turn Party

    • Toss and Turn Return

    • Toss and Turn Search
  • 11

    It's Over There

    • Introduction to It's Over There

    • Directionals

    • CIRCLE AND SPIN

    • Look At That

    • Look Left or Right

    • Looking As An Alert

    • WORK THE CLOCK - ALERTING
  • 12

    Name Recognition

    • I Hear Your Name

    • What’s My Name

    • What’s My Name on Leash
  • 13

    Emergency Alerts

    • Paws On

    • Push It

    • Push It Push It Real Good

    • Paws Up And Push

    • CPR

    • Deep Pressure Therapy

    • The Human Place Mat In The Dark
  • 14

    What NOT To Alert

    • A Line of Humans