The Ultimate Guide to Hearing Dogs – this site helps explain the capabilities of Hearing Dogs and explains task and behavior/chain training.

Four Tips for Hearing Alert Training – A few basic tips for the Hearing Alert Training

Service Dog Courses – this site offers on demand courses and their Hearing Alert course builds off of fundamental classes.

Teaching a Hearing Alert Dog – this site focuses on training your Hearing Alert Dog to bark at specific sounds. Nudging is another step which would be necessary for the deaf.

Puppy Raising Manual – A puppy raising manual from the GuideDogs.org site. While these dogs go on to be Guide Dogs, the puppy raising and obedience are largely what you’d want in a service dog.

Puppy Raising Manual – much like the site above but in an easily printable PDF if you prefer.

Puppy Raising Manual – yet another manual from another organization! I find reading through several them helpful in giving me a well-rounded information base.

Books

Service Dog Training Guide by Jennifer Hack

Dog Training Manual by Nate Schoemer

Lend Me an Ear: Temperament, Selection and Training of the Hearing Ear Dog by Martha Hoffman

Excel-erated Learning: Explaining in plain English how dogs learn and how best to teach them by Pamela Reid

Anything by Cesar Milan, but especially Be the Pack Leader, Cesar’s Way and How to Raise the Perfect Dog

Anything by The Monks of New Skete but especially The Art of Raising a Puppy

Public Access Test

Service dog’s may not have to pass the Public Access Test by law, but it’s a standard I would recommend: Public Access Test