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Graduate Student Mentoring Award

Tulane 34 Award

International Society for Autism Research Workshop Award

Lolas E. Halverson Motor Development Young Investigator Award

International Society for Autism Research

International Motor Development Research Consortium

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An Eye-Tracking Method for Directly Assessing Children's Visual-Motor Integration

Autistic Children Use Less Efficient Goal-Directed Whole Body Movements Compared to Neurotypical Development

Motor skills predict adaptive behavior in autistic children and adolescents

Motor problems in autism: Co-occurrence or feature?

Community‐based postural control assessment in autistic individuals indicates a similar but delayed trajectory compared to neurotypical individuals

Motor differences in autism during a human-robot imitative gesturing task

Harvesting Twitter Data for Studying Motor Behavior in Disabled Populations: An Introduction and Tutorial in Python

Identity and Discourse Among #ActuallyAutistic Twitter Users With Motor Differences

#DCD/Dyspraxia in Real Life: Twitter Users’ Unprompted Expression of Experiences With Motor Differences

Visuomotor Development & Activities of Daily Living

Dr. Nicholas Fears is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA, USA. Dr. Fears completed his undergraduate training in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University in 2013 and his graduate training in Developmental Psychology at Tulane University in 2019. He completed his postdoctoral training in the Department of Physical Therapy at University of North Texas Health Science Center and in the School of Kinesiology at University of Michigan in 2022. Dr. Fears joined the LSU School of Kinesiology in August 2022.

Dr. Fears’s research focuses on the development of motor skills, sensory processing, and activities of daily living in neurodiverse people. He is interested in how dynamic relationships between motor, visual, and cognitive processes affect the performance of activities of daily living in neurodivergent populations (i.e., autism, developmental coordination disorder). The goal of his research is to improve the lives of neurodivergent people by adapting their environments and providing support for them to achieve their goals. Dr. Fears is the director of the Human Development & Daily Life (HuDDL) Lab: https://faculty.lsu.edu/huddllab/.

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Developmental Disabilities

Eye Tracking

Motor Development

Motion Analysis

Neurodivergent Youth

Developmental Coordination Disorder

Activities of Daily Living

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Human Development & Daily Life Lab

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LSU adapting motor skills app to meet needs of autistic children

LSU assistant professor awarded $50,000 grant for developmental app that will help children with autism

Adapting a Play-based, Parent-mediated Motor Skills Intervention App to Reduce Motor Difficulties and Increase Physical Activity in Autistic Preschoolers

Quantifying the impact of visuomotor planning and execution during activities of daily living in autistic children

Pilot Clinical Trial of an App-based Motor Skills Intervention for Reducing Motor Difficulties in Autistic Children

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