Even if environmental reconstruction should not be seen as compensating for deficits, a question remains about the extent to which it should be seen as a matter of redistribution or recognition.
Cognitive rehabilitation involves the teaching of skills and strategies to target specific problems in perception, memory, thinking and problem solving, with the goal of improving function and compensating for deficits.
For instance, he thinks that being more intuitive, more practical, more focused on particulars, and less rigid allows women to compensate for deficits in the way that men typically approach decision-making.
That is, given the known capacity of the brain to compensate for deficits in one area by cobbling together a solution in another, one cannot assume that there is a 'language module' in WS patients which develops more or less normally despite other cognitive systems' being massively disrupted.
Both men said that appliances, home accessories and furnishings can be designed to compensate for deficits such as arthritis, hearing and visual impairment and difficulty in walking.
Many have worked with military or VA specialists to learn to overcome or compensate for deficits in memory, speech, organizational skills, reading, finger dexterity -- everyday skills we take for granted.
Communication impairments are partly attributed to memory deficits, and AAC intervention may be used to compensate for deficits and to capitalize on the person's strengths, such as the ability to recognize material they cannot recall.
It has been suggested though that not all clock stimuli lose their effectiveness with age and that it may be possible to compensate for deficits in clock performance by enhancing the strength of those stimulus pathways which are still intact [40].
These observations suggest that enhanced palatability can compensate for deficits in oscillator entrainment or incentive motivation, but that this effect is masked by CR.
First, to compensate for deficits in all the neurotransmitter systems involved in the pathophysiology of PDD using replacement pharmacotherapy would necessitate polypharmacy for patients, with the associated risks of multiple side effects.
The key components of this system of assessment are setting clear expectations, use of conditional pass (CP), longitudinally monitoring progress and not allowing strengths in one area to compensate for deficits in a different area.
