During the Covid-19 pandemic, changes in the platform for expressing themselves through art performance are also faced by autistic individuals. This is certainly a challenge because music is a way that is used by autistic individuals to express themselves. Supporting by social media like YouTube; platform transformation brings ideas for art performance organizers so that autistic individuals can continue to perform, one of which is through the Autism Awareness Festival. Through computer-mediated communication models and diffusion of innovation theory, this study aims to dissect how the adaptation process that occurs in autistic individuals conveys self-expression through performance and digital art performance models in the form of virtual concerts, and how the concept of virtual art performance communicates the big message from the AAF. This study uses a qualitative method. Data collection techniques through FGDs were divided into two groups of AAF participants; and one group of participating parents. In-depth interviews were conducted with the organizers and accompanying teachers. The result shows that the concept of virtual concert can be applied to autistic individuals. The process that occurs in these conditions looks unique at the stages of the period in which there are adaptations and rejections. At the stage of the social system that must be targeted first are parents and aides; as a support system that becomes a bridge to explain a new concept. Autistic individuals have a very small and close environment, so input from parents and guardians is the most trusted source of information for them.
Human resource development is the focus of the government in the 2020-2024 National Medium Term Draft. One of the concerns is stunting. Bandung Regency is one of the areas with a high prevalence of stunting. Data from the 2022 Indonesia Nutrition Status Study shows that the prevalence of stunting in the Bandung Regency area reaches 31.1 percent or 112,000 people. Sukamulya Village is one of the villages that has implemented a stunting prevention program seriously. The stunting prevalence rate can be reduced to 11 percent per year in 2021 from 14 percent in 2019. This figure is indeed quite good, but the decline in the number which is only 1 percent per year is an interesting thing to study. One of the causes of stunting is early marriage by young people. Therefore this study aims to understand the opinions and attitudes of the youth subculture of Sukamulya Village on the issue of stunting. The theory used in this research is Youth Subculture and Social Learning Theory. The research methodology uses a constructivist qualitative approach. The results showed that the opinions and attitudes of the youth subculture in Sukamulya Village were divided into three groups. Groups that have awareness of the issues of stunting and early marriage, groups that know about stunting issues but don't care about them and groups that don't know. The emergence of these three groups is due to different levels of consciousness and intellect.
Autistic people might suffer from misconceptions in communication when they reach adolescent or as puberty affects their hormonal balance. To show their feelings to the opposite sex, autistics teenagers might communicate with each other by exchanging non-verbal symbols. Such condition occurred at the London School Beyond Academy (LSBA) Jakarta skills training institute. The present study aims to investigate non-verbal communications among young people with autism which take place when they are attracted to the opposite sex in LSBA. To investigate the matter, descriptive qualitative method was applied. Data is collected through interviews and observations. The results suggest non-verbal communication is not only understood by two teenagers who are attracted to each other, but also by their friends. The results show that non-verbal communications through symbols are common things among adolescents with special needs and such communication can be interpreted easily. The simplicity of perceived symbols and direct meaning from their friends make it easier for teenagers with special needs to express their feelings. Parents need to provide their supports by giving normative familial boundaries. In addition, educators can get involved by providing understanding of psychological stages of autistic teenagers. However, educators still need to give boundaries to those teenagers such as forbidding them from doing direct contact when no one is watching. under
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