THE USE OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA TO ENHANCE VERBAL ABILITY ON AUTISTIC CHILDREN EXPERIENCED ON SPEECH DELAY IN SLB AUTIS MITRA ANANDA

Abstract

Autistic students are well-known with their special characteristic that is the ability to speak slower or speech delay. Autistic children will convey their ignorance with incomprehensible diction or indicated by behaviors out as disclosure. It definitely hampers autistic children’s communication which affects on some aspects of their life at school or society, especially in socialization. The problem faced by autistic children should be given approaches which then expected will influence their speech barrier till it enhances their verbal communication which impact the process of learning and socialization. The use of appropriate media in learning process will help students to accept the learning material and enhance students’ interest toward lesson. Thus, interactive multimedia is considered to be able to enhance verbal ability of autistic students. This research was done in SLB Autis Mitra Ananda Surakarta with the research subject was an autistic student. It was an experimental research with Single Subject Research (SSR) approach and A-B-A design, A was baseline and B was intervention. Technique of collecting data of this research was test which was objective test with comparative data analysis that compared the result baseline and intervention phase. The result of this research indicates that the role of interactive multimedia use is good to enhance autistic students’ verbal ability. In term of verbal ability attained by autistic students, there are some aspects follow on its development namely the aspect of increasing concentration ability, rough motor, soft motor, cognitive and then affect on students’ socialization ability.