The expressive language disorder of the cerebral palsy in the Skallagrigg movie

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Language is the most important thing used by human being. Human being is the perfect creation of God. In this world, every human being has weaknesses because there is no body perfect except God. Concerning this fact, God creates Human being with different characteristics and types since she or he was born. The characteristic of no perfection also refers to human’s speech system which is categorized as speech or language disorder. Speech or language disorder refers to a language disability which causes the difficulties of understanding and expressing language. These problems also experienced by woman who suffers of Cerebral Palsy (CP).

Cerebral Palsy is a spectrum of chronic movement disorder affecting body and muscle coordination. These disorders are usually caused by damage to one or more areas of the brain. The movement problems can vary from barely noticeable to extremely severe which also influence the movement of speech organ.

This research uses descriptive qualitative method study to investigate the problem of language phenomenon in a movie. Therefore, this study aims to get the understanding of the phenomenon in the Skallagrigg movie that is Cerebral Palsy using expressive language disorder. The character of Cerebral Palsy is Esther who has been successful in his life as the disabilities woman. Therefore, the researcher is interested in observing in order to find out the kind of language disorder and the Esther’s experience. The researcher collected the data by analysis, observe, and describe the utterances that can be found in “Skallagrigg” movie.

The result of this study show that Esther’s utterances have some kinds of speech and language disorder namely articulation disorder (from the manner of articulation), phonological disorder (substituting, failure, and omitting sound), voice disorder (improperly, talking too long, and unnatural pitch), and stuttering (dysfluency and pauses). The result also shows that articulation disorder is mostly found. The result also shows that Esther’s experience are angry, happy, serious and underestimated condition.

Finally, after analyzing the language of cerebral palsy in kinds of language disorder speaker, the researcher and the readers are expected to know about the kinds of language disorder. Besides, this study can lead for the next researcher that is psycholinguistic researchers who have interest to language disorder, especially in Cerebral Palsy (CP) it is better do field research in real conversation.