STUDI TENTANG BULLYING PADA SISWA AUTIS DI SEKOLAH DASAR INKLUSI

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Bullying case still happened in elementary school especially the school establishing inclusion. In inclusion elementary school, beside regular students there were special need students i.e. autism students. Autism children experienced bullying very susceptible. Autism students had disturbance in interacting and characteristics behavior. The disturbance of social interaction and special behavior often became the main cause of autism students to have bullying from the regular students.
The purposes of this research were to describe the forms of bullying behavior to autism children in inclusion elementary school Gedangan Sidoarjo, to describe who did bullying behavior to autism students in inclusion elementary school Gedangan Sidoarjo, to describe the teacher’s knowledge toward bullying in inclusion elementary school Gedangan Sidoarjo, to describe the difficulty experienced by the school so that bullying happened, to describe the way to solve bullying behavior experienced by autism students in inclusion elementary school Gedangan Sidoarjo. The research used descriptive with qualitative approach.
This research used qualitative method with descriptive study kind. The research subject was 6 students of inclusion elementary school in Gedangan Sidoarjo. The data collection technique used was interview, observation, and documentation. The analysis data technique used was descriptive analysis.
The research result indicated that bullying to autism students still happened. The forms of bullying which were often experienced by autism students were bullying physic and verbal. The bullying performer to autism students was the regular student who was friend of the autism student. The teachers in inclusion elementary school had perceptual bullying to autism children as behavior disturbing and making the autism students uncomfortable. The prevention experienced by the school was the lack of educator for autism students causing the bullying happened. Bullying could be solved by giving comprehension to regular students that bullying was bad behavior, approaching to autism students, and often involving the autism students in the school activity.
Keywords: bullying, inclusion elementary school