Jeannette Schaeffer is full professor Language Acquisition. She specializes in language acquisition by typical, impaired, and multilingual populations. She earned her MA degree from Utrecht University in 1990, her PhD degree from UCLA in 1997, and was a Postdoc at MIT until 1998. From 1998-2011 she worked at Ben Gurion University in Israel as an Assistant and an Associate Professor. She has been affiliated with the University of Amsterdam since 2011.