It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 8th Conference “Language Disorders in Greek” (LDG8) which will take place on the 30th and 31st of May 2020, at the University of Thessaly in Volos. LDG is a biannual Conference that takes place either in Greece or Cyprus, with the aim to bring together researchers working on developmental and acquired language disorders. During the Conference an overview of the state-of-the-art research on language disorders is presented and new directions and emerging trends in areas such as psycholinguistics, clinical linguistics and language pathology are explored.

This year, the Conference is organized by the Laboratory of Bilingual Education and the Laboratory of Learning, Language & Communication Disabilities, Department of Special Education (SED), University of Thessaly and the joint, between University of Thessaly and Hellenic Open University, Master's Program "Education Sciences: Special Education and Training of People with Oral and Written Language Difficulties".

Researchers and clinicians investigating language disorders theoretically and empirically on all linguistic areas (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) are invited to submit an abstract. We hope that you will enjoy the conference as well as your stay in Volos.