The Eighth Autumn Meeting Patholinguistics (‘Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik’) with its main topic “Special treatment? Language therapy in the context of primary disorders” took place in Potsdam on
November 15 2014. This annual meeting has been organized since 2007 by the Association for Patholinguistics (Verband für Patholinguistik
e.V./vpl).
The present proceedings contain the four keynote talks on the main topic, the four short talks from the series ‘Spectrum Patholinguistics’, as well as the contributions of the poster session from all areas of
speech/language therapy research and practice.