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
Types of Synovial Joints. The many synovial joints of the human body enable movement of various types, largely based on their shape. For example, the elbow and knees joints are classified as hinge joints and act like the hinges of a door, with one bone remaining stationary and the other bone moving along a single axis. The highly movable ball-and-socket joints of the shoulder and hip allow movement in all directions.