Will children with autism make improvements on language skill and social interaction by flashcard?

Abstract

Social interaction is individual problem which caused limitation, including to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who have obstruction in language skill, that the individual can communicate expressively and receptively. This research was aimed to identify the effects of language skill to the improvement of social interaction on children with ASD by using flashcard. Moreover, this research was an experimental research with random pretest posttest design. The subjects in this research were taken from 6 kindergarten students in 7-8 years old who have diagnosed as autism, particularly they were able to do babbling. The instrument of research was ATEC (Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist) on social sub-test and language skill scale by Massey. The data analysis employed non-parametric method through Mann Whitney test, Wilcoxon test, and Kendall’s tau-b test. The analysis result from Kendall’s tau-b showed Z= 0.654 and p value= 0.024<0.5, It suggested the language skill has quite significant effect to the improvement of social interaction.