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 To increase social interaction and independence of deaf and hard-of-hearing recipients by placing with them specially trained hearing-ear dogs; To educate the community about the needs of the deaf and hard-of-hearing and the use of hearing-ear dogs.
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 Dogs ears began with Melanie Blackburn, who with her mother owns Anne's Country Club for Pets. When Melanie found out her son, Joseph, was hard-of-hearing, she and Anne decided their two loves (love of dogs and love of Joseph) could combine.
Melanie went to Massachusetts for an internship under a man who had trained hearing-ear dogs for 15 years and returned to Oklahoma to begin Dog Ears in 1988. |
