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Jennifer Cunha is an attorney who formerly taught inner-city children how to read. With that experience, she began teaching her cockatoos phonics and reading skills through a modified approach to systematic phonics instruction. She uses strong conditioning techniques to build vocabulary, and has taught her parrots to correlate phonics to vocabulary development for purposes of enrichment and communication. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

Jennifer collaborated with the University of Miami to investigate parrots\u2019 phonics skills, and their partnership has resulted in groundbreaking research in animal cognition that has been submitted for peer review and publication. \"The IAABC Journal\" posted a fascinating article by Jennifer titled \"Can Parrots Learn To Read?\"<\/a> that details how this came about.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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