Christina Hunger
Christina Hunger is a speech-language pathologist specializing in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for children with speech delays.
She applied her professional expertise to teach her dog, Stella, to communicate using recordable buttons.
Hunger's work with Stella gained widespread attention on social media and in the press.
Her book details the process of teaching Stella to use over 45 words and phrases.
Hunger advocates for a "communication revolution" in human-animal interactions.
She maintains a website, hungerforwords.com, where she shares videos of Stella and resources for others interested in teaching their pets to communicate using similar methods.