Dr Sanne van der Kleij

School of Psychology
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email: s.w.vanderkleij@bham.ac.uk

Dr Sanne van der Kleij’s research focusses on language and cognitive development in children and adolescents, particularly on the role of literacy in children’s development and learning. She has extensive experience in quantitative modelling to examine individual differences in development/change over time, combining different methodological designs that generate this type of data.

Teaching

LM Modelling Change and Diversity: An introduction to Structural Equation Modelling

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Apperly, IA, Lee, R, van der Kleij, SW & Devine, RT 2024, 'A transdiagnostic approach to neurodiversity in a representative population sample: The N+ 4 model', JCPP Advances. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12219

Wilson, R, Hruby, A, Perez-Zapata, D, van der Kleij, SW & Apperly, IA 2023, 'Is recursive "mindreading" really an exception to limitations on recursive thinking?', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001322

Van Der Kleij, SW, Burgess, AP, Ricketts, J & Shapiro, LR 2022, 'From Bibliophile to Sesquipedalian: Modeling the Role of Reading Experience in Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension', Scientific Studies of Reading, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 514-526. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2022.2068418

van der Kleij, SW, Apperly, I, Shapiro, LR, Ricketts, J & Devine, RT 2022, 'Reading fiction and reading minds in early adolescence: A longitudinal study', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 222, 105476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105476

van der Kleij, SW, Burgess, AP, Ricketts, J & Shapiro, LR 2022, 'Tracking vocabulary and reading growth in children from lower and higher socioeconomic backgrounds during the transition from primary to secondary education', Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13862

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