Sentence examples for compensatory skills from inspiring English sources

They compensated for their academic shortcomings by developing superior social skills, and, when they reached the workplace, those compensatory skills gave them an enormous head start.

"We found that dyslexics who succeed had overcome an awful lot in their lives by developing compensatory skills," Professor Logan said in an interview.

It has a neuroprotective effect on the modulation of neuroplasticity, improving the brain's capacity to retrain neural circuits and promoting restoration and acquisition of new compensatory skills.

He developed compensatory skills like a capacious memory, he said, but he still does not write or type and almost never speaks from a prepared text.

"Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia" (Business Day, Dec. 6), on the high prevalence of dyslexics among the ranks of entrepreneurs, describes possible explanations for this phenomenon, including perfecting the art of task delegation and the honing of compensatory skills.

In addition, a limitation of the study is the combination of the training of cognition (restitution) and the training of compensatory skills.

The difference being that by definition a savant has some neurological damage with a compensatory skill.

In team sports, this activity would target the compensatory athletic skills required during phase transitions where athletes couple their movements at various speeds relative to the movements of opponents, teammates and direction of the ball [8, 22].

One possibility of course lies in the diversity of cognitive profiles, and in the possibility that some children with a deficit in phonological skills use compensatory mechanisms and brain plasticity to overcome reading difficulties.

The approaches used included comprehensive interdisciplinary rehabilitation, cognitive/academic exercises and communication skill training, compensatory techniques and computer-assisted training, educational intervention, psychotherapy, and behavior modification.

Many driving schools also offer training for older drivers to help rehone those skills and develop compensatory ones.