Repetition As Lexical Aspect of Autism Therapist in Speech Therapy Process

Abstract

Repetition as one of lexical aspect is a repetition of lingual units such as sounds, syllables, words, or part of words that are considered important to give pressure in an appropriate context. Speech therapy process was used by autism therapist to give some treatment to the autism child so they can interact with the environment properly and do not have the psychosocial disorder. The aim of this research was to point out the kinds and the function of repetition as one of lexical aspect used by autism therapist in the speech therapy process. This research was a descriptive qualitative design. This research was located in Inclusive school center for holistic autism and hyperactive therapy Kembang Mekar Jombang. The source of data in this research was the dialogue between autism therapist and autism child in the speech therapy process, and the form of the data was the utterances which contain kinds of repetition. The data were collected through interview and observation with recording than it was transcribed to make easily analyzed. The result of this research showed that the kinds of repetition as one of a lexical aspect of autism therapist in the speech therapy process were Epizeuksis, Anaphora, Epistrofa, Mesodiplosis, Anadiplosis and Full repetition. Meanwhile, the function of repetition itself was to give pressure in an appropriate context.