Creating Smiles, Improving Lives

Maria Resendiz

Bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist

Maria Resendiz, PhD, CCC-SLP is a bilingual speech-language pathologist with over 20 years of experience. She is an associate professor at Texas State University.

She first went on a trip to El Salvador with Austin Smiles as a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin in 2001. In 2017 Maria was re-introduced to Austin Smiles by bilingual speech-language pathologist Julie Loney, who approached Maria about providing speech therapy to children via tele-practice after they received surgeries from Austin Smiles plastic surgeons. Since then, Maria has involved her collaborators and students in training with therapists from El Salvador. Along with collaborators, Maria will start providing speech therapy to children in Guatemala multiple times a year. Maria is married to Richie; they have two children, Gabriel and Rebeca, who keep life interesting.