Isti Learn To Read With The Acrostic Mnemonic Technique

Abstract

The Education plays a very important role in advancing and shaping the character of the nation's children. This research is based on the problems of communication difficulties, social difficulties and behavioral disorders in autistic children so that learning to read the acrostic mnemonic technique is one method that can reduce the problems that autistic children face. This acrostic mnemonic technique is applied by combining the first few letters of the word that will be put together to form an interesting word. The method used in this research uses a qualitative approach with action studies connected between acrostic mnemonics, planning, implementation, observation and reflection. From the results of this research, it is possible to train reading for an autistic child named (Isti) using the acrostic mnemonic technique, namely by recognizing vowels correctly, recognizing consonant letters correctly, recognizing diphthong letters, understanding the concept of one open vowel sound, understanding the concept of one vowel sound. closed, understand the concept of two vowel sounds, understand the concept of three vowel sounds, read syllables in speech and read quickly so that this process runs optimally and can be remembered well.