The Dynamics of Internet Access Among Autistic Childrens Parents

DOI

10.2991/uicosp-17.2017.38How to use a DOI?

Keywords

internet access behavior, information behavior, internet literacy, autistic children's parents

Abstract

Parents are the main factors to support the growth of childrens autism, but many parents still are embarrassed and shut herself away from her social environment. The Internet helps to do self actualisation and developing group owned by her children. The Internet is also helping them to access about the growth needs of autistic children, the problem is parents have different of behavior and the ability to access the internet. The purpose of this study was to describe the behavior of internet access on parents who have autistic children. The researchers used a qualitative method, The number of informants was five person, while in getting the informants using techniques snowball. The concept used is Information behavior and internet literacy. The results of this research show that the behavior of internet information access parents effected by the characteristics of autistic children. Characteristics of autistic children are distinguished into two, the behavior of autistic children are active and passive. Autistic children actively motivate parents have internet literacy, while autistic children passive aspects influenced his parents don't have internet literacy. The conclusion that internet literacy necessary for parents of children with autism, active and passive, especially to help meet the information needs of the growth of her children, as well as fostering confidence and potential of his son.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ragil Tri Atmi
AU  - Fitri Mutia
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - The Dynamics of Internet Access Among Autistic Childrens Parents
BT  - Proceedings of the Unhas International Conference on Social and Political Science (UICoSP 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 137
EP  - 139
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/uicosp-17.2017.38
DO  - 10.2991/uicosp-17.2017.38
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