TINDAK BAHASA TERAPIS DALAM INTERVENSI KLINIS PADA ANAK AUTIS

Abstract

This study aims to describe types, functions, and strategies of therapeutic language
acts in clinical interventions on autistic children. It employed the qualitative approach
using the clinical pragmatic design. The findings are as follows. First, clinical therapeutic
interventions on autistic children use illocutionary acts in the forms of directive, assertive,
and expressive acts. In general, they use simple utterance patterns. Second, therapeutic
verbal acts have functions to command, invite, require, refuse, ask, agree, state, explain,
compliment, thank God, and thank. Third, strategies of therapeutic language acts are in
the form of direct utterance strategies by means of calling, giving directions, and using
visual objects or models.