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
Classifications may be based on protein structure as in the CATH database and the Structural Classification of Proteins database (SCOP). The list is based on the biological categories described in the GO Slims list for GOA and whole proteome analysis. Modifications are being made as needed, but an effort is being made to keep these top level categories limited in number.