Description:
Autistic children generally have complex obstacles
in terms of communication, social interaction and behavior. One
of the obstacles in behavior experienced by autistic children is the
lack of ability to sort out appropriate and inappropriate behavior
to do, that it can trigger impulsive behavior. Impulsive behaviors,
in this study, means not able to sit down quietly for a long time,
shout if the class feels quite quiet, and do the task in a hurry
without paying attention to the commands. Therefore, it is
necessary to give a treatment to reduce this behavior, namely the
token economy technique. The purpose of this study is to find out
the use of token economy technique to reduce impulsive behavior
of a student with low autism level in SMP Negeri 14 Banjarbaru.
This study used quantitative approach with the SSR method
(Single Subject Study), using the design A1-B-A2, where A1 is the
baseline 1, B is the intervention and A2 is the baseline 2. The
subject in this study is a student in class VIIIA who has low
autistic obstacles. The data was collected by doing direct
observation and documentation of this study by recording events
(frequency). Data was analyzed using graphical visual analysis
technique (Visual Analysis of Graph Data) by plotting the data
into the graph, and then the data was analyzed by components in
each A1-B-A2 condition. The results showed a decrease in
impulsive behavior of the student in SMP Negeri 14 Banjarbaru
after applying token economy technique. The results obtained at
baseline 1 (A1) are 14 times the occurrence of impulsive
behavior, intervention (B) is 10 times which shows the impulsive
behavior of children begins to decline and at baseline 2 (A2) is 9
times. The estimated trend tends to improve, decreases mean
level from baseline 1 (A1) to baseline 2 (A2).
Keywords—token economy technique; impulsive behavior;
children with low autism level