Pengaruh Terapi Sensori Integrasi Terhadap Kemampuan Berbicara pada Anak Retardasi Mental Sedang

Abstract

Moderate mental retarded child is a child who has the intelligence between 36-51. They have difficulties of speaking. This problem has relation with their reading skill, verbal skill, behaviour, psychosocial adjustment, and academic skill. Therefore, Sensory Integration therapy is used to minimize their speaking problem. This research aim to get more data about the effect of sensory integration therapy for moderate mental retarded children’s speaking performance. The research’s design is one group pretest-posttest design. The subject of this research are 4 persons with moderate mental retardation between 6-12 years old. The sampling method in this research is purposive sampling. And the measurement tool is an observation method with drawing card to be aiming at vocabulary development as one of speakingperformance aspect. Aitem selection in this research is coeficient correlation point biserial. The result of Kappa’s reliability by using SPSS versi 21 software is 0,429. Major result of research it indicates that t = - 1,000 and p = 0,30, in which p ˃ 0,05. It means that there is no effect of Sensory Integration therapy for moderate mental retarded children’s speaking performance.