MEDIA WAYANG KLITHIK MODIFIKASI TERHADAP KETERAMPILAN BERBICARA ANAK AUTIS

ABSTRACT A speech skill was ability in expressing either thought, idea or feeling suitable with the needs for the listener. Children with autism had lateness in speaking this appeared in his speech rigid and monotone, talked to himself, and repeated the song lyric cut. Therefore, to develop the speech skill of children with autism it had been used short dialog with Klithik puppet modification media. This research had purpose to analyze whether there was influence of klithik puppet modification media toward speech skill to children with autism in SD YBPK Semampir Kediri.  The kind of research used was pre-experiment. The design used one group pre test and post test. The method used to collect the data was test method. For the data analysis this research used analysis technique of statistic non parametric with wilcoxon match pairs test. The research result after using klithik puppet modification media indicated that Zh = 2,20 > Zt = 1,96 this showed “there was significant influence of klithik puppet modification media toward speech skill to children with autism”. Keywords: Speech skill, klithik puppet modificatio