Resendiz to discuss El Salvador cleft palate project at upcoming Rotary Club meeting

Maria Resendiz, Ph.D., will discuss a project that delivers speech therapy to Salvadoran children after surgical treatment for cleft lip or palate at an upcoming Rotary Club of San Marcos meeting.

Resendiz, her co-director and students from the Texas State University Department of Comm unication Di s o r ders train therapists in El Salvador on best practices for delivering speech therapy to Salvadoran children.

Resendiz is a bilingual speech-language pathologist with 20 years of experience and an associate professor at Texas State. She directs the PLATICAR project, which stands for Providing Language and Articulation Therapy in Countries and Regions. They help children learn how to produce sounds with a repaired palate or repaired lip.