PARENT’S ROLE AND ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHILDREN WITH AUTISM IN SPECIAL SCHOOLS PAMEKASAN DISTRICT, EAST JAVA PROVINCE, INDONESIA

Abstract

Parents’ role was very important for the education of the children with autism. It is because the parents’ attitude and behavior affect the achievement of the children with autism. One of the parents’ role to improve the achievement of the children with autism is by giving the attention for the activities. This research aims to find “The Correlation between parents’ role and achievement of children autism”. The subject of the research is the children with autism at school for children with special needs in Pamekasan District. This research uses correlation research by using Spearman rank method to find if there is a correlation between variables. Questionnaire and documentation techniques which are used to collect to the data.
Based on the data analysis, = 0,0179. It is smaller than rho table. The result for the significant error for 5% is 0,738 and for 1% is 0,881. Therefore, Ho is accepted and Ha is rejected. The result of the data analysis shows that the correlation between X variable and Y variable was weak. Also, there was not trusted correlation between both variables. Based on the result of the research, it can be concluded that (1) The parents of children with autism in Pamekasan in active in the children’s education, be able to cooperate with school well, and pay attention to the children either at school or home, (2) the achievement of the children with autism in Pamekasan is still low. It is proven by the result of the Students’ report at school for special needs children in Pamekasan, (3) parent’ role and the achievements’ of the children with autism at school for special needs children in Pamekasan shows that there is not trusted correlation between both of them.