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
CHAPTER 8 JOINTS OF THE SKELETAL SYSTEM OVERVIEW An understanding of how joints work is basic to how the body moves. You will study the functions ofjoints andhow joints are classihed according to the type of tissue that binds the bones together (Leaming Outcomes 1-4).ist the functions ofjoints. 8.2 Classification of Joints (p.261) 2. Explain how joints can be classified according to the type of tissue that binds bones together. 3. Describe how bones offibrousjoints are held together. 4. Describe how bones ofcartilaginousjoints are held together.