THE IMPROVEMENT OF COMMUNICATION THROUGH EMOTION AND BEHAVIOR CONTROL IN AUTISM STUDENTS

Abstract

— complex developmental disorders that make it difficult for someone to communicate, express
feelings, andthoughts, and often impairs their social interaction with other people.It's challenging to
understand the autism student who has different abilities to communicate and interact amongst themselves.
The objective of this research is to improve communication skill of autism students inside a group through
controlling their behaviour and emotions. The action research is conducted in development talent, and
creativity course in inclusion class which have two autistic students. The subject of this research is one of
autism student who have difficulty in communication, unstable emotions, and not flexible. The behaviour of
autism student was controlled by hand signals and verbal communication from the lecturer, in order to
reduce high intonation and emotion during a discussion in the class. The result show that there is a
significant improvement in autistic student during class presentation, and also the communication among the
students. The employed of intonation control and communication rhythm through verbal and hand signal
reduce the high pitch speech and more focused and reduce stress during group discussion.