STRATEGI VISUAL TERHADAP KEMEMPUAN KOMUNIKASI ANAKAUTIS DI SEKOLAH DASAR

ABSTRACTBased on the observation in SD Negeri Percobaan Surabaya it indicated that thechildren had difficulty in communication. So to enhance the communication abilityused visual strategy with the media of story picture in a series. One of the factors thatmade the autism children difficult communicating was caused by the lateness oflanguage development, hard to talk, using unsuitable meaning words.This research had purpose (1) to find the communication ability with visualstrategy in SD Negeri Percobaan Surabaya before giving intervention, (2) to find thecommunication ability with visual strategy in SD Negeri Percobaan Surabaya aftergiving intervention, (3) to find the influence of visual strategy toward communicationability of autism children in SD Negeri Percobaan Surabaya. The design used in thisresearch was Single Subject Research (SSR). The subject was two autism children in SDNegeri Percobaan Surabaya. The data collection techniques were observation anddocumentation.The research result indicated that to baseline phase, the frequency ability of autismchildren to comprehend the instruction was still among 3-4 to the first subject while tothe second subject it was among 2-3 but after giving visual strategy by training thesubject’s comprehension toward instruction of mentioning and explaining gotenhancement i.e. 27-31 to the first subject and 23-30 to the second subject. From theresult of visual analysis among condition indicating the relation among condition itcould be concluded (1) giving visual strategy significantly influenced towardcommunication ability of autism children, (2) before using visual strategy, thefrequency of communication ability of autism children in comprehending instructionwas among 3-4 to the first subject and 2-3 to the second subject, (3) after using visualstrategy the communication ability of autism children was among 27-31 to the firstsubject and 23-30 to the second subject.Keywords: Visual strategy, communication abilit