PENGARUH PENERAPAN PERMAINAN LEGO TERHADAP INTERAKSI SOSIAL ANAK AUTISME DI SEKOLAH MY HOPE SPECIAL NEEDS CENTER BANDA ACEH

Abstract

Social interaction is a reciprocal relationship between two directions, each of which has respondents both in terms of individual and individual, individual and group and group and group. Children with autism have difficulty in social interaction, resulting in unfocused eye contact, unfocused movements, lifeless facial expressions, and an inability to play with peers. This research aims to determine the effect of using Lego games on the social interactions of children with autism.  The design of this research is Pre-Experiment with a one group pretest-posttest design. The population in this study were all children with special needs at the My Hope Special Needs Center school, and the sample used was 8 children with autism aged 5-6 years. Data collection was carried out using observation sheets to see the effect of using Lego games on the social interactions of children with autism. In this study, researchers obtained results where the social interaction of children with autism before being given the Lego game was 46.09 and the social interaction data for children with autism after implementing the Lego game was 64.06. Based on the t-test analysis, tcount = 6.0 and ttable = 1,895 with degrees of freedom (db) 7 at the significance level α= 0.05. From the results of these calculations it shows that tcount > ttable so that Ha is accepted and HO is rejected. Thus, the application of Lego games to the social interaction of children with autism increased with Ngain 0.05 in the medium category, so it can be said that there is an influence of the application of Lego games to the social interactions of children with autism at the My Hope Special Needs Center Banda Aceh school.