The audiologists and speech-language pathologists at University of Miami Health System help children of all ages to overcome speech, language, and hearing problems. Our specialists are skilled in recognizing concerns early to prevent difficulties with speech and language development, talking, listening, understanding, reading, and writing — and even making friends.

We provide comprehensive evaluations to find out why a child is not responding to sounds or does not seem to be talking like other children of the same age. Then we design therapies and interventions around your child’s needs to create a supportive, comfortable environment for your child:

• Audiologists: Work with children with hearing loss. The audiology team performs hearing screenings for all newborns at Jackson Memorial Hospital, and other area hospitals often refer infants with hearing problems to us because of our expertise. Audiologists also perform diagnostic hearing tests on children referred by area pediatricians, family practitioners, psychologists, and speech language pathologists. The audiology team looks for the presence of hearing loss and, for older children who are struggling in school, the presence of auditory processing problems.
  
  
• Speech-language pathologists: Work with children to improve the way they form speech sounds and help them develop language skills. Speech-language pathologists also help children with social language abilities and conduct evaluations for computer-based assistive communication devices. We offer speech-language evaluations and therapy in English and Spanish.