Language Acquisition By Children Suffering From Developmental Language Disorders

Abstract

This research attempts to explore children that suffer from DLD, especially Autism/ASD children. The main focus of this research is to investigate what language aspects are acquired by the children, analyse their language development based on the stages of language aspects that consist of: Speech sound, Syllable, Vocabulary, Structure and their development language combined with giving some of the processes of ABA Method of therapists and also a diet that has been set. This research try to answer the following problems and the research applied the descriptive of quantitative qualitative research. The research was conducted at Lembaga Bimbingan Anak Berkebutuhan Khusus “Autis Home Center” (AHC) with eight children as appropriated as the subjects to be observed. The findings indicated that from the languages aspects was utterances by children it was found that part of speech sound for Articulatory Phonetics of the vowels it is found that in front vowel (fv) with the highest utterance of 37.5%. For the middle vowel (mv) the most frequently encountered with the highest utterance 79%. And for end vowel (ev) with the highest utterance 37.25%. And Articulatory Phonetics of the consonants was found the most frequently encountered with the highest utterance 51.08%. It was found that one syllable the most common with 48%. And for two syllables 59.32%. And for three syllable 50%, the remaining phrases were said with the highest number of 46,67%. For 50% clause, sentence and part of structure has not been found from their utterances.