nonverbal ability
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnon-verbalandability
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non-verbal
adjective
uk/ˌnɒnˈvɜː.bəl/us/ˌnɑːnˈvɝː.bəl/
not using words, or not relating to the use ...
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ability
noun[C or U]
uk/əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the physical or mental power or skill needed to ...
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This pattern of results was upheld when we accounted for the effects of age, verbal ability, andnonverbalability.
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A total of 15 poor comprehenders and 15 normal readers, matched for decoding skill, chronological age, andnonverbalability, participated in this experiment.
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Particularly striking is the high frequency of this indicator in the small subgroup of children withnonverbalabilityabove 120.
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The second point to note is the relatively high level of all indicators in children of lownonverbalability.
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Most of these correlations, however, did not hold up when variance shared with age, verbal ability, andnonverbalabilitywas controlled.
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Most of these relationships disappeared when the effects of age, verbal ability, andnonverbalabilitywere partialed out.
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Measures of verbal andnonverbalabilitywere always administered first.
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Reading comprehension was explained by orthographic processing,nonverbalability, children's attitudes towards reading and word identification.
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We investigated the nature of syntactic awareness skills in children with reading and language comprehension deficits compared with normally developing children, matched for age,nonverbalability, and decoding skills.
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The measures were selected to ensure that samples were of averagenonverbalabilityand to enable matching of groups on indices of verbal comprehension and expression.
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Nonverbalabilitytherefore needs to be taken into account when considering group differences on other measures.
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Age andnonverbalabilitywere therefore included as covariates in group comparisons, where appropriate.
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That is, all the children were identified between 24 and 31 months of age; all had normal receptive language as well as averagenonverbalabilityand typical personality development.
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This dissociation of verbal and nonverbal abilities gave us an opportunity to examine the character of the same-result strategy.
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Second, these children may differ in relevant nonverbal abilities.
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First, these late talkers were all children with average or better nonverbal abilities, good receptive language, normal social-personality development, and middle- to upper-middle-class family backgrounds.
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Groups were matched on chronological age, and had similar receptive vocabulary and nonverbal abilities.
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These language deficits are observed despite normal nonverbal abilities, normal hearing, no evidence of neurological impairment, and no social or emotional concerns.
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All the late talkers had normal nonverbal abilities and age-adequate receptive language but significant delays in expressive speech.
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