Dr. Maria Andreou is an Assistant Professor of Language Disorders in Children at the Department of Speech and Language Therapy of the University of Peloponnese in Greece. She holds a PhD in Psycholinguistics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research mainly focuses on the language and cognitive abilities of monolingual and bilingual children with neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder and developmental language disorder. She was recently awarded a research grant by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation to investigate the relationship between language, ToM, EFs, and bilingualism by examining high-functioning autistic children. She has participated as a researcher in 10 funded research projects and has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, collective volumes, and conference proceedings.