Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Producing Words of Indonesian Language of Children Patients

Abstract

Special treatment for autistic spectrum disorder in the form of joint research with three relevant fields of linguists could provide the speech learning for patients with special needs. This research was conducted to seek the phonological disorder such deviations of the exchanges of consonant or vowel sounds, vowel sounds and consonants, and misjudgment (metathesis) to consonant sounds and vowel sounds in Indonesian autistic patients’ speech. The study found that the adult patients, aged from 10 to 15 years old, got the level of language acquisition was  only equivalent to children aged 3-4 years. It suggested that the speech irregularity of those patients the existence of psychic disorder responsible for the case of neurocognitive of Autistic Spectrum Disorder of Children Case Echolalia.