“Spektrum Patholinguistik” (vol. 2) contains the proceedings of the “2nd Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik” which was held at the University of Potsdam on November 22, 2008. Many talks and posters focused on bilingual language processing in normal and impaired speakers. The other contributions covered various topics, e.g. sentence processing and
agrammatism, reading strategies and developmental dyslexia, language development, childhood aphasia, dysphagia therapy and cognitive skills in aging.