Pengaruh Media Visual (Gambar) Terhadap Kemampuan Kosakata Anak Autis

Abstract

Barriers possessed by autistic children are communication and language, so that the vocabulary they have is limited. The purpose of this study is to describe the vocabulary skills of autistic children both before and after the intervention state and analyze visual media (pictures) of the vocabulary abilities of autistic children. This research method is quantitative using Single Subject Research (SSR) A-B-A design with A is the baseline and B is an intervention. The vocabulary of autistic children before intervention or on the implementation of A-1 is 24%, which means that the vocabulary of autistic children is very low in recognizing the vocabulary of animals, fruits and objects, then the implementation of interventions (B) the ability of autistic children rises to 60%. Then the final implementation is the A-2 test stage as a benchmark for the subject without any intervention, and it turns out the subject's vocabulary ability increased to 75%. Thus it can be concluded that the results of the study show that there is an influence of visual media (pictures) on the vocabulary of autistic children