The Ability of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Pronouncing Words in English: Phonology Study

Authors

  • Heri Heryono*, Salma Dwi Puspa, Sindy Agustin, Puspa Nur Anisa, Ristia Bella Setyanie

Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD leads to a disorder that involves main characteristic in
establishing two-way direction communications or it is simply categorized as people who
have disorder in words pronouncing that affects to their social-skill. The issues of elocution
that looked by individuals might be brought about by their insight into the way to express
certain words. It is likewise conceivable that they know enough the hypothesis yet not ready
to articulate it appropriately. The matters of Phonetic receiving from respondents involved in
the research were generally missing letters, the difference in sound, or even consolidated
words into one when they talk. The methods of the research were descriptive research with
qualitative method and some theories applied in this research were Phonetics and Phonology
by their sub-unit as assimilation, rules, dissimilation to match with the type of ASD in getting
the result of analysis. Based on the finding and discussion in the previous part, the
researcher came with the conclusion. It can be inferred that all participants are categorized
to assimilation category by 20% result as follow: dissimilation 8.58 %, deletion 45.71 %,
lenition 5.71% and for about 8.58% of the respondents doesn’t speak the word (at all) while
the rest 11.42% of the respondents had correct articulation. From the percentage it could be
concluded that deletion type is the most dominant, especially deletion apocope with total
percentage 56.25%.

Published

2020-10-17

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