Isabelle Armstrong, BA
Isabelle Armstrong is a research assistant in the Autism Center at the Child Mind Institute under the guidance of Dr. Adriana Di Martino. She graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in psychology and science in society. While at Wesleyan, she worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Sleep and Psychosocial Adjustment Lab, where she assisted in multiple studies examining the psychosocial functioning of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. She conducted a capstone project in the lab on the sleeping and feeding habits of mother-infant dyads during the pandemic. Isabelle also contributed to a study in the Cognitive Development Lab at Wesleyan, which involved implementing a research-based play-intensive math curriculum in a preschool classroom.
Isabelle has experience working with children with various behavioral and developmental conditions, including most recently at Sunrise Day Camp, the world’s only cost-free summer day camp for children with cancer and their siblings. Isabelle is passionate about childhood mental health and plans to pursue a doctoral degree in clinical psychology in the future, specifically to work with children.
Education
- BA, Psychology, Science in Society Program, Wesleyan University
