IPad 3rd Gen will not play sounds, but speaker does work

iPad 3rd Generation (A1416), ios 8.1.3
My iPad just recently stopped outputting sounds through the speaker, but the speaker does work. Notifications, alerts, music, videos, apps; nothing outputs sounds through the speakers. Sound DOES work through headphones and airplay devices. When researching other forum posts, my issue differs in a few ways.
1. The speaker DOES work. When I go into Settings > General > Sounds and move the slider bar at the top for Ringers and Alerts level it outputs sounds through the speaker.
2. When swiping up from the bottom of the screen to display the control center, there are NO controls shown for the volume of the speaker, which there should be.
I have gone through all the possible types of resets including a master reset and backup from iTunes and I am still having the same issue. At this point there are no more reset options or configuration changes that I am aware of to resolve.
Help Please!

Hi, urbsom.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I understand you are experiencing an issue with muted or no sound on various applications. I also understand that the issue persists after processing some troubleshooting steps. There are just a couple more that I could recommend in the article below.
If you hear no sound or distorted sound from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch speaker
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203794
-Jason H.

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