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Dr. Andrea Spruijt is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University's Institute of Education and Child Studies, affiliated with the Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences department under the Social and Behavioural Sciences faculty. She also serves as a senior researcher at Yulius Academy's Educational Expertise Center.
- Education: PhD in Education and Child Studies (2019), Research Master in Developmental Psychopathology (2012), and Bachelor in Brain and Cognition.
Her research focuses on how parent-child interaction influences neurocognitive functioning in school-aged children, particularly attentional control, executive functioning, and social cognition. She evaluated interventions to improve parent-child dynamics through the Curious Minds Program, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education.
Recent publications highlight her work on Selective Mutism and its overlap with autism, aiming to bridge clinical practice and educational applications.
She collaborates with institutions like Yulius Academy and Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), with expertise in neuropsychological diagnostics and developmental disorders.
