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Assistance dogs give help to hearing impaired
Quick ReadTHE CREATURE FEATURE: Assistance dogs give independence to people who are hearing impaired
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Ray Dobson and the dog he now calls Goblin both had a problem.
The little mixed-breed who was rescued from the streets of Puerto Rico needed a home. Dobson, of Orleans, Mass., was losing his hearing.
"My wife saw me kind of dropping out," he says. "As people get deafer they get more anti-social."
Both problems were solved when man and dog were brought together by the National Education...
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