LINGUA TOOLBOX (LITO): INTERACTIVE TOOLBOX INNOVATION AS LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT MEDIA FOR SPEECH DELAY CHILDREN WITH EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE DISORDER

Abstrak

The development of technology presents gadgets as one of the technologies that can be accepted and used by all groups, one of which is early childhood. Inappropriate and excessive use of gadgets can cause children to experience difficulties when communicating, leading to speech delay and expressive language disorders. The research aims to create an interactive toolbox as a language development media for speech-delayed children with expressive disorders. This research uses a type of quasi-experiment research with a one-group pretest-posttest design using a sampling technique, namely purposive sampling which uses the criteria of children who have received a diagnosis of expressive language disorders aged 4 to 6 years. The measuring instrument used in this study is an observational checklist with a reliability value of 0.785 and validity in the form of content validity by expert judgment. The results of testing the hypothesis of this study were carried out with the Paired Sample T-test which resulted in a significance level of .000 (p < .05), so it was concluded that there was a significant effect on the provision of Lingua Toolbox on children's language development in speech delay children with expressive language disorders. Therefore, Lingua Toolbox can be an effective intervention to improve language development in speech-delayed children with expressive language disorders.