LATIHAN INISIASI TEMAN SEBAYA (PEER INITIATION TRAINING) TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN INTERAKSI SOSIAL ANAK AUTIS

Abstract

Abstract

One of the main impairments of autism children was low social interaction ability. During doing observation in SDN Percobaan Surabaya it was found one autism child in ten years old had low interest to social interaction. This research had purpose to prove the influence of being applied the Peer Initiation Training toward social interaction ability to one of the autism children in SDN Percobaan Surabaya. Three peers in the same class were participated in training to initiate and to respond the interaction toward the autism children.This research used SSR (Single Subject Research) with A-B model and used the design of model based plural based on behavior (multiple baseline cross variable). The research was focused on the frequency measurement of appearing social interaction respond and social interaction initiation for 30 minutes of school break time in the activity of eating and playing together. This research result indicated there was intervention influence of Peer Initiation Training in the form of frequency enhancement in responding social interaction. Social interaction respond to baseline phase appeared 0-3 times compared to intervention phase 20-44 times, with better trend direction tendency. The opposite result was then indicated by social interaction initiation, the frequency appeared 5-34 times higher compared to baseline phase, however, the data did not indicate stability, with decreasing trend direction tendency. So there was not any influence of Peer Initiation Training toward the frequency of social interaction initiation.

Keywords: Social interaction, Peer Initiation Training