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Overview

Carl Gabbard is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on developmental and educational psychology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, education, clinical psychology, and sociology and political science. The work covers multiple areas including children's physical and motor development, infant development and preterm care, early childhood education and development, as well as topics related to child development and digital technology, inclusion and disability in education and sport, family and disability support research, and emotional intelligence and performance.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Carl Gabbard include:

  • The Strengths and Limitations of DCD-Related Screening Questionnaires, 2021, Current Developmental Disorders Reports
  • Effects of affordances in the home environment on children's personal-social, problem-solving, and communication skills, 2020, Child Care Health and Development
  • Influence of the home affordances on motor skills in 3- to 18-month-old Iranian children, 2020, Early Child Development and Care
  • The impact of maternal emotional intelligence on young children's motor development, 2021, European Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Maternal Emotional Intelligence and the Provision of Child Motor Affordances, 2022, Children

Frequent coauthors in their research include Saeed Valadi, Faramarz Hooshyari, Sonia Esmaeelzadehazad, Somaye Kavousipor, and Mehdi Rassafiani.

Work by Carl Gabbard has been published in a variety of journals, with notable appearances in:

  • Child Care Health and Development
  • European Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Early Child Development and Care
  • Current Developmental Disorders Reports
  • Children

Their main fields of study encompass psychology, social sciences, and medicine. Within these broader areas, subfields such as developmental and educational psychology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, education, clinical psychology, and sociology and political science form the foundation of their research focus.

Best Publications

  • Lifelong motor development

    Carl Gabbard

  • A Question of Foot Dominance

    Carl Gabbard;Susan Hart

  • Gender differences in Brazilian children's fundamental movement skill performance

    Barbara Coiro Spessato;Carl Gabbard;Nadia Valentini;Mary Rudisill

  • Effect of the home environment on motor and cognitive behavior of infants

    Audrei F. Miquelote;Denise C.C. Santos;Priscila M. Caçola;Maria Imaculada de L. Montebelo

  • PHYSICAL EXERTION AND IMMEDIATE MENTAL PERFORMANCE OF SIXTH-GRADE CHILDREN

    Dennis McNaughten;Carl Gabbard

  • Associations of biological factors and affordances in the home with infant motor development.

    Raquel Saccani;Nadia C Valentini;Keila Rg Pereira;Alessandra B Müller

  • FOOT-PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR: A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE

    Vickie Gentry;Carl Gabbard

  • Development of the Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development–Infant Scale

    Priscila Caçola;Carl Gabbard;Denise C.C. Santos;Ana Carolina T. Batistela

  • The Inability To Mentally Represent Action May Be Associated With Performance Deficits in Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder

    Carl Gabbard;Tatiana Bobbio

  • Effects of Physical Activity on Mathematical Computation among Young Children.

    Carl Gabbard;Joel Barton

  • Development and Construct Validation of an Inventory for Assessing the Home Environment for Motor Development

    Luis Paulo Rodrigues;Linda Saraiva;Carl Gabbard

  • Foot laterality in children, adolescents, and adults.

    Carl Gabbard;Misaki Iteya

  • A New Inventory for Assessing Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development (AHEMD-SR)

    Carl Gabbard;Priscila Caçola;Luis Paulo Rodrigues

  • Family socioeconomic status and the provision of motor affordances in the home

    Teresa C. B. Freitas;Carl Gabbard;Priscila Caçola;Maria I. L. Montebelo

  • Body mass index, perceived and actual physical competence: the relationship among young children.

    B. C. Spessato;B. C. Spessato;C. Gabbard;L. Robinson;N. C. Valentini

  • Physical education for children: Building the foundation

    Carl Gabbard;Elizabeth LeBlanc;Susan Lowy

  • The Role of Motor Competence and Body Mass Index in Children's Activity Levels in Physical Education Classes.

    Barbara Coiro Spessato;Carl Gabbard;Nadia C. Valentini

  • Further Development and Validation of the Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development–Infant Scale (AHEMD-IS)

    Priscila M. Caçola;Carl Gabbard;Maria I.L. Montebelo;Denise C.C. Santos

  • Studying action representation in children via motor imagery

    Carl Gabbard

  • The new affordances in the home environment for motor development - infant scale (AHEMD-IS): Versions in English and Portuguese languages

    Priscila M Caçola;Carl Gabbard;Maria I L Montebelo;Denise C C Santos

  • What drives children's limb selection for reaching in hemispace?

    Carl Gabbard;Casi Rabb Helbig

Frequent Co-Authors

Nadia Cristina Valentini
Nadia Cristina Valentini Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Jane E. Clark
Jane E. Clark University of Maryland, College Park

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