Artikel untuk Aprish 2017: PHONOLOGICAL DEVIATION PATTERNS IN THE SPEECH OF A DOWN SYNDROME PERSON AT SLB-C WIMAR ASIH

D.L. Khairina, H.Y. Anjarningsih[1], & M. Laksman-Huntley.

Department of Linguistics, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia

ABSTRACT: Speech disorder is the most dominant disorder that can be observed in people with Down Syndrome (DS). The main and visible causes of the speech disorder are physiological features in their speech tools. It causes deviation in their utterance production, such as sound omission, sound substitution, sound augmentation, sound reposition, and the combination of all the deviations. One thing that has not been known by common people about people with DS is their inconsistency in uttering the same words which makes them difficult to communicate with others. Thus, this research aims to observe the deviation patterns in people with DS by trying to find pattern consistency among inconsistent utterances that people with DS produce. The method used in this research is qualitative method. The subject is a 16;7 years old DS person with a mental age of 3;7 years old and an IQ score of 22. The data of this research are utterances with sound substitution deviations. Two patterns are discovered: (1) the subject tends to substitute the consonants located at the beginning of words and (2) the subject tends to substitute the sounds into alveolar sounds.

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[1] wintha_salyo@yahoo.com

Artikel untuk Aprish 2017: WORD AND PSEUDOWORD PERCEPTION DEFICIT OF INDONESIAN CHILDREN WITH DYSLEXIA

Y. Sitepu, H.Y. Anjarningsih*, & M. Laksman-Huntley

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia 

ABSTRACT: Children with dyslexia have difficulties in understanding both pseudowords and realwords heard in quiet or noisy condition (Brady, Poggie, Rapala, 1989). This research analyzes utterance perception of children with dyslexia who are native speakers of Indonesian language. The research methods are quantitative and qualitative with the approach of controlled case study. Five children with dyslexia (DD) aged 7-9 years old at Pantara Inclusive Primary School, and 25 children with the same chronological age studying at Kwitang 8 Primary School, Pancoran Mas, Depok as the control group (CG) are given tasks to repeat 24 high frequency realwords and 24 pseudowords, heard in both quiet and noisy conditions. The 24 pseudowords come from the 24 words manipulated on the first consonant in the second syllable. The result shows that 4 out of 5 children in the DD experience significant difference in utterance perception compared with the one experienced by the CG. This supports the findings of Brady et al. (1989) and the data also show that children with dyslexia tend to alter consonants into voiceless consonant sounds, and the central vowels to the front or back vowels.