International Seminar on Language, Literature, and Education ISLLE 2017
Abstract
Speaking as an
effective form of communication is one problem faced by people with Down
Syndrome. They have disparity on their speaking instruments, resulting in
articulation interference and communication difficulties. Articulation interference
leads to divergence in the utterances produced by people with Down Syndrome, such as the omission of phonemes, the substitution of phonemes, the addition of phonemes, the omission of syllables, the substitution of syllables, and the addition of syllables. However, people with Down Syndrome, when uttering a word, can make multiple divergences at once. In addition, they show inconsistency in uttering the same word; therefore,
there is a shift in the divergences they make. In this research, the patterns in combination
or complex divergence by a boy with Down Syndrome are analyzed to see what sound(s) tend to
be uttered. The method used in this
research is qualitative method. The subject in this reseach is a boy
with Down Syndrome aged 16 years old 7
months, with 3 years old and 7 months mental age, and an IQ score
of 22. Data corpus in this research is
utterances with complex divergence. The findings of this research are five
utterance patterns by the research subject, namely (1) the addition of consonants to words starting with vowel sounds, (2) the omission of consonants in the ending of the words, (3) the omission of one of
the consonants in syllables consisting of a group of consonants, (4) the substitution
of patterns
from VC-CV or VC-CVC to CV-CV, CV-CVC, or CVC-CVC, and (5) vowel retention and no shift in
words.
Key Words: phoneme, complex, divergence,
utterances, Down Syndrome.
