verbal skills
collocation in Englishmeaningsofverbalandskill
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verbal
adjective
uk/ˈvɜː.bəl/us/ˈvɝː.bəl/
spoken rather ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk/skɪl/us/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofverbalandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is important to note that the difference between good and poor readers is not totally covered by differences inverbalskill, rather by high and low level processes.
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When using a sign the parent should say the word out loud because this will help the baby link the gestures toverbalskilldevelopment.
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This enabled understanding of the procedure to be examined independently of verbal skills.
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These are ordinal measures used to assess the child's acquisition or development of audition and verbal skills.
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By contrast, their strengths frequently lie in their verbal skills.
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Without this, they would have been judged as without capacity because their verbal skills were so severely impaired.
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Thus, the children's verbal skills were undoubtedly better.
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Results from the present study suggest that verbal skills may influence children's ability to shift attention.
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Consequently, it seems likely that first-born children, as a group, could be expected to display superior verbal skills by contrast to those born later.
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The coordinator/facilitator needs to have a strong agricultural background with excellent written and verbal skills.
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Do colicky babies grow up to have better verbal skills than non-colicky babies?
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Bolinger, in particular, argued for conditions of 'fevered invention', a process driven by speakers' desires to be original, demonstrate verbal skills and to capture attention.
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This early difficulty learning to represent phonemes, the building blocks on which both oral and written language depend, will result in lower verbal skills later in life.
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Events which occur before sufficient verbal skills develop may not become available for verbal recall even as children develop the language skills necessary for describing that event.
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