Every child must go through a process of growth and development that starts from the womb,

babies, toddlers, school age, and adolescents. But not all children have the same and normal
stages so special handling is needed, like children with special needs (Ministry of Health, 2010).

Children with special needs are children who have developmental disorders more than two
aspects or children who experience irregularities which consist of a blind, disabled, waiting,
mentally retarded, disabled, autism, and learning disabilities (Ministry of National Education,
2011). National census data issued by Statistics Indonesia in 2007, as many as 8.3 million
children of 82,840,600 children in Indonesia are children with special needs. For the Special
Region of Yogyakarta, there are 2,983 people, with details of mental and sensory defects as
many as 366 people, 781 people with physical disability, 691 mental retardation, 352 people with
multiple disabilities , and 790 people with unknown disabilities.

From the number that is not small, the Government of Indonesia has regulations governing
special protection for children with special needs or persons with disabilities contained in
PermenPPPA PKDS No. 4 of 2017 to protect children with disabilities in community life and
fulfill their rights as guaranteed in the law (KemenPPPA, 2017). One category of children with
special needs are children with disabilities. physical disability is a disability in the muscular,
bone and joint systems that causes disruption of coordination, communication, adaptation,
mobilization, and developmental disorders (Maria, 2017).

Judging from the psychological aspects of people with physical disabilities, they tend to be
apathetic, shy, inferior, sensitive and sometimes selfish attitudes towards their environment are
caused by personal development and formation that are not supported by the surrounding
environment (Laora, 2016). In addition, there are still many families and communities who are
treating different children with disabilities so that they create negative feelings towards the
environment and themselves (Putri, 2010). Negative feelings that are formed will give rise to bad
perceptions for disabled children which will then form a negative self-concept (Nida, 2014).

Problems of the self concept of children with physical disability, basically

have in common with a normal physical conditions.But the psychological factor is very influenti
al on the development of the concept of self because the children with physical disability
relies heavily on environmental perception about his physical condition

Siregar's research (2015), Durado (2013) and Ariyanta (2013) states that family support
influences the formation of self-concept. But in the Alice study (2014) stated that there was no
relationship between family support and self-esteem.