Pengembangan Buku Digital Social Story Untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Regulasi Emosi Anak Autis Di SLB Bakti Asih Surabaya

Development of a Digital Social Story Book to Improve Emotional Regulation Skills In Children with Autism at SLB Bakti Asih Surabaya

Anak autis cenderung memiliki emosi yang sulit dikontrol, oleh karena ini dibutuhkan bahan ajar untuk intervensi meningkatkan kemampuan regulasi emosi anak autis. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu mengembangkan buku digital social story untuk meningkatkan kemampuan regulasi emosi anak autis di SLB Bakti Asih Surabaya, dan mengetahui kelayakannya berdasarkan uji validasi dari ahli materi, ahli konten, dan praktisi. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian pengembangan atau bisa disebut R&D (Research and Development) menggunakan model pengembangan ADDIE dengan 5 tahapan pengembangan, yakni Analyze (analisis), Design (desain), Development (Pengembangan), Implementation (Implementasi), dan Evaluating (Evaluasi). Namun dalam penelitian ini, hanya sampai pada tahap Development (Pengembangan) yaitu membuat buku digital social story dengan nyata.

Hasil uji validasi kelayakan buku digital social story untuk meningkatkan kemampuan regulasi emosi anak autis menunjukkan. (1) Uji kelayakan dari ahli materi memperoleh nilai rata-rata 3,5 persentase 88% dengan kriteria sangat baik tidak memerlukan revisi. (2) Uji kelayakan dari ahli konten memperoleh nilai rata-rata 3 persentase 75% dengan kriteria baik tidak perlu revisi. (3) Uji kelayakan dari praktisi dilakukan oleh dua praktisi, praktisi 1 memperoleh nilai rata-rata 3,65 persetase 91%, dan dari praktisi 2 memperoleh nilai rata-rata 3,85 persentase 96%, dari dua praktisi memperoleh kriteria sangat baik tidak perlu direvisi. Oleh karena itu, berdasarkan hasil uji validasi dapat dinyatakan bahwa buku digital social story untuk meningkatkan kemampuan regulasi emosi anak autis layak untuk diimplementasikan untuk anak autis.

Children with autism tend to have difficulty controlling their emotions, therefore, learning materials are needed as an intervention to improve their emotional regulation skills. The purpose of this research is to develop a digital social storybook to enhance emotional regulation skills in children with autism at SLB Bakti Asih Surabaya, and to determine its feasibility based on validation tests by a subject matter expert, a content expert, and practitioners. This study is a research and development (R&D) study using the ADDIE development model, which consists of five stages, Analyze, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. However, in this study, the process is limited to the Development stage, which focuses on creating a functional digital social storybook.

The results of the feasibility validation of the digital social storybook to improve emotional regulation in children with autism are as follows. (1) The validation by the subject matter expert received an average score of 3.5 with a percentage of 88%, categorized as very good and requiring no revision. (2) The validation by the content expert received an average score of 3 with a percentage of 75%, categorized as good and not requiring revision. (3) The validation by practitioners involved two practitioners, the first practitioner gave an average score of 3.65 with a percentage of 91%, and the second practitioner gave an average score of 3.85 with a percentage of 96%. Both evaluations were categorized as very good and did not require revisions. Therefore, based on the validation results, the digital social storybook developed to improve emotional regulation skills in children with autism is considered feasible for implementation.