Expressive language usage of autism sufferer

Expressive language disorder is an inability to express someone’s feelings, thoughts, and needs. This study focused on expressive language usage of autism sufferer in communication when they had an inability to express it through verbal and non-verbal. Verbal involved phonological disorder, syntactic disorder, and pragmatic disorder. In non-verbal, it involved writing. The researcher used descriptive-qualitative method, because this study explained expressive language usage of autism sufferer. The data was taken from an observation to autism sufferer and interviewing to counselor teacher, and the sufferer’s parent. The researcher used psycholinguistic theory to identify language disorder including expressive language disorder and other theory of Autism Spectrum Disorder to diagnose an autism sufferer based on the symptoms that arise. In the result, the researcher found that autism sufferer has difficulty to express his feelings, needs, and thoughts in communication especially using expressive language. Therefore, he could not express his feelings, needs, ideas to communicate appropriately through verbal and non-verbal. In verbal, it included phonological disorder where the sufferer could not say consonant cluster clearly. Syntactic disorder involved the sufferer could not govern and combine the word into sentence. Pragmatic disorder involved the sufferer could not do interact to other such as less turn taking when having communication. While, in non-verbal is better than verbal. He could express his feelings through writing although he got difficulty to combine the word into sentence. Sometimes, he could not memorize the alphabet letter but by the teacher’s help, he could do it well.