The overall goal of occupational therapy is to help the person with autism improve his or her quality of life at home and in school. The therapist helps introduce, maintain, and improve skills so that people with autism can be as independent as possible. These are some of the skills occupational therapy may foster: Daily living skills, such as toilet training, dressing, brushing teeth, and other grooming skills.
Joints or articulations (connections between bones) can be classified in a number of ways. The primary classifications are structural and functional. Functional classification is based on the type and degree of movement permitted. Types of Synovial Joints.jpg: Image of a skeleton and skematics of the different classes of synovial joints. Three Categories of Functional Joints
There is a third category of joints called biomechnical joints that include all surgical implants that replace damaged organic tissue (surgical knee, shoulder, and hip joints for instance). Within the structure classification you have fibrous joints (like skull sutures), which are connected by fibrous connected tissue, cartilaginous joins (like vertebrae), which are connected... Joints are classified in two ways: structure (how the bones are connected) and function (how many degrees of freedom the joint has).