Bonnie Bergin, Ed.D., is the president of the Assistance Dog Institute (www.assistancedog.org), the world’s only academic college that awards associate and master’s degrees in dog studies. Her latest initiative, the High Schooled Assistance Dog Program, teaches at-risk youths to train assistance dogs for people with disabilities. The author of two dog-training books and winner of Oprah Winfrey’s Use Your Life Award, she lives in Santa Rosa, California.

One of the world’s leading dog trainers shows how to increase your dog’s IQ while deepening the bond you share.

Dr. Bonnie Bergin originated the service dog concept and movement, and she has been training dogs to assist people with disabilities for more than thirty years. She knows that dogs have an almost limitless capacity to learn. Teaching dogs to read was one of her dreams—and now she has made that dream a reality with a system anyone can use with just about any dog.

In this clear, inspirational guide, she provides step-by-step instructions for training the dog in your life to read flash cards with one-word commands and stick-figure drawings. With more than fifty instructional photographs, Teach Your Dog to Read is an amazing tool for making your dog smarter and enhancing your capacity to communicate with each other.