PENERAPAN MEDIA VISUAL DALAM PEMBELAJARAN PESERTADIDIK AUTIS

AbstractThis research had purpose to describe the form of visual support and the function which was yieldedby the application to student with autism in SLB Autisme River Kids Malang.This research was qualitative. The subject of this research was headmaster and teachers who involvedto student with autism in SLB Autisme River Kids Malang. The object of research was the application ofvisual support in the school. The data collection techniques were observation, interview, taking pictures anddocumentation. The data which had been collected was then interpreted and the result was in the form of theapplication description of visual support in SLB Autisme River Kids Malang dealt with the forms of visualsupport used, the application function and technique, including the problem and solution.The result of this research indicated that: (1) the forms of visual support which had applied werevisual activity schedule, visual to structure the environment, visual script, visual rule reminder, and visualtask analysis which had been applied consistently along the students were in the school, (2) the applicationtechnique of visual support was given since the pupils entered from the school area till going home, it wasnot only learning media in the class but also visual support which was given to all activities of students inthe school, (3) the function which was yielded by the application of visual support was to make the studentswith autism more predictable and controllable so that the learning was focused more and more and thelearning result also enhanced.This research indicated that there were several problems happening during applying visual support.One of them was the fund for getting software used by the teacher as media in making visual support design,the minimum place for saving visual support, the limitedness of time and teacher because a number ofstudents was more than the teachers, too often making visual support because the main material used waseasy to break.The solutions which had been done to remove the problem were using software of trial version,providing special organizer box as the place to store the visual support, and maximizing cooperation amongteachers to control students with autism and cooperation to maintain and keep visual support each other.Keywords: visual support, learnin