Gluten Free Mixed Flour as a Substitute for Wheat Flour to Reduce Gluten Intake in Autism Spectrum Disorder Children

Diets applied to children with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) are Gluten Free and casein-free. Mixed flour is a combination of rice flour, tapioca flour, corn-starch flour, catfish and catfish head flour. This study aims to analyze the use of mixed flour as a food composition material for children with ASD conditions according to CFGF (Casein Free and Gluten Free) diet at the Autism Service Center. This research uses Quasi-Experiment Design which applied One Group Pretest-Posttest Design. Samples totaling 20 children with ASD and mother. Pretest and post-test analysis illustrate the impact or influence of the holding of Cooking Class on increasing mother's knowledge with ASD. The Wilcoxon singed-rank test analysis p = 0.02, meaning that there is a significant influence of Cooking Class on improving the knowledge of mother of child with ASD. Analysis of Wilcoxon singed-rank test on recall measurement before and after intervention showed p≤α, meaning no significant effect of gluten-free diet on daily intake of children. The analysis of Wilcoxon singed-rank test on gluten consumption habit (p=0.000)-there is significant effect of mixed flour on the decrease of gluten consumption habit