We provide the highest quality clinical service to communicatively impaired individuals of infants, children and adolescents. Clinicians strive to provide state-of-the-art care, and professionals observe the highest professional standards.

We offer teaching opportunities to patients and their families, to other allied health professionals, to physicians and physicians in training, and to the lay community.

We seek to advance the knowledge of speech/language pathology and audiology through ongoing research programs. Research programs are often collaborative with colleagues, and research results are disseminated through oral presentations and publication.

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Treatments

Duke Children's Division of Speech Pathology and Audiology offers services to pediatric patients with communication disorders including:

Speech Pathology

• Speech disorders including: articulation errors, motor sequencing/apraxia, dysarthria, phonological disorders
• Language disorders including: pragmatic disorders, language delay, central auditory processing disorders
• Feeding disorders (476 KB PDF) including: failure to thrive, sensory feeding disorders, gastrostomy feeding tube issues, oral motor hypersensitivity often secondary to GERD.
• Fluency (stuttering)
• Voice disorders

Audiology

• Speech/ language delay
• Autism
• Developmental disabilities
• Chromosomal abnormalities
• Hearing loss

Disease-Specific Programs

Audiology

• Ototoxic monitoring for patients at risk of developing hearing loss due to therapeutic drug treatment
• Follow-up for neonatal intensive care patients at risk of developing hearing loss due to conditions present at birth
• Otologic disease: diagnostic hearing testing and monitoring of patients with ear disease
• Audiologic evaluation and management of infants and children with chromosomal and genetic abnormalities

Commonly Performed Procedures

Speech Pathology

• Evaluation of swallowing including Modified Barium Swallows and FEES (Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing)
• Central Auditory Processing Testing
• Language Evaluation
• Instrumental evaluation for voice and resonance disorders

Audiology

• Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)
• Conditioned Play Audiometry (CPA)
• Conventional Audiometry
• Immittance testing
• Otoacoustic Emission testing (OAEs)
• Auditory Brainstem Response testing (ABR)
• Auditory Steady State Response

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Clinic Hours and Location

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

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