Ditto on the hand signals. It is very easy to train a dog on hand signals. You can do the voice command also, so that he may be familiar with your mouth movements, like reading lips! All animals in tv and film are trained with hand signals. Obv the trainers cannot use voice commands while filming. I don't see the deafness as a major setback and if it were me, would take him in a heartbeat!
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