Rossana Ramires, M.SLP, CCC-SLP, CB-SLP, OMTS

Based at the Austin, TX campus, Rossana Ramires joined the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences as a Clinical Educator in January 2024. She has experience in clinical instruction, having worked in various settings with children and adults as a speech-language pathologist since 2002.

Her main focus as a professional is to provide individualized treatment and customized therapy, with emphasis on a teamwork approach, as well as on cultural and linguistic diversity. Ramires is particularly interested in working with clients with speech and language disorders, normal and abnormal orofacial/craniofacial development and function, orofacial myofunctional disorders and feeding disorders. Fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, her main area of interest is bilingualism and multiculturalism.

Ramires received a bachelor’s degree in speech-language pathology from Metodista Izabela Hendrix University Center-Brazil and a master’s in speech-language pathology from Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC/SP), Brazil. She earned a certificate in public health after completing continuing education at Southern Cross University (UNICSUL), Brazil, and was awarded with a certificate of specialization in Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (OMTS) by the Speech-Language-Hearing Brazilian Federal Council. Ramires also has a bilingual certificate in Bilingual Speech-Language Pathology from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Ramires holds her Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) and is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) special interest groups on administration and supervision, swallowing and swallowing disorders, and cultural and linguistic diversity.