DISRUPTION IN CHILDREN WITH LANGUAGE DISORDER

This research deals with disruption in children with language disorder. This research tried to answer the following problems: (1) what disruption was made by the children with language disorder?, and (2) why did the disruption take place among children with language disorder?. The research applied the descriptive qualitative research. The research was conducted at UPT. SLB-E (Sekolah Luar Biasa) Negeri Pembina Tingkat Provinsi with 16 students of Elementary School Grade as the subjects to be observed. The findings indicated that all the subjects made all kinds of disruptions in their utterances i.e. disruption of form, disruption of content, disruption of use, disruption of interaction between form, content, and use, and disruption of seperation of form, content, and use. By using the documentary technique, it was found that there were four reasons of language disruption occurances made by the children, they are: students with mental retardation who are included in cognitive limitation, students with hearing loss who are included in sensory input deficits, students with cemebral palsy who are included in motor skill deficits and mute and autistic students who are included in deficient social relation.