They either have criminal charges against them, cannot pass the drug test or cannot pass the military qualifying test, which measures math and verbal proficiency.
As I read, I pondered briefly why the writing quality was so abject, even in the cases of students who had hitherto proved their verbal proficiency.
The results are consistent with previous research that suggests individuals with an increased genetic propensity to bipolar disorder were more likely to show a range of creative abilities, especially in areas where verbal proficiency may prove advantageous, such as in literature or leadership roles.
Indeed, one of the authors is quoted as saying: "One possibility is that serious disorders of mood – such as bipolar disorder – are the price that human beings have had to pay for more adaptive traits such as intelligence, creativity and verbal proficiency".
The city originally tried to enact similar rules earlier this year that would only apply to drivers from non-English speaking countries, and would require both written and verbal proficiency.
The benefits highlighted in recent studies include some that are obvious and some that are not so obvious: improved SAT scores; improved math and verbal proficiency; improved language skills; higher acceptance rates to medical schools; lower current and long-term drug and alcohol abuse; and higher self esteem.
Because the WISC-IV Verbal Comprehension subtests were not considered culturally appropriate for the Inuit, verbal proficiency was assessed on the Boston Naming Test (BNT) (Kaplan et al. 1983) and Verbal Fluency Test (VFT) (Delis et al. 2001).
Wiepking and Maas (2009) show that higher verbal proficiency can largely account for the more generous charitable donations of the higher educated.
Distinctions between SLI and other language impairments are important because developmental factors besides verbal proficiency may have been responsible for the observed links between language impairments and ADHD.
Because the WISC-IV Verbal Comprehension subtests are not culturally appropriate for the Inuit, verbal proficiency was assessed on two other verbal tests: the Boston Naming Test (Kaplan et al. 1983) and the Delis-Kaplan Verbal Fluency Test (Delis et al. 2001).
Each child was assessed on seven subtests comprising three of the four index scores from the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children, 4th edition (WISC-IV; Wechsler 2003), and two tests of verbal proficiency adapted for Inuit culture.
