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should be cared for, nurtured and educated to be strong and productive individuals

(Arjoni et al., 2017). Children are born with the potential to have the ability to

develop well, but they may not fully do it themselves (Kamal, 2016). The birth of

children with special needs that distinguish them from children in general, the

presence of children with special needs in the family will change a lot in the

family, especially related to emotions (Sulastina & Rohmatun, 2018). Children

with special needs are children who experience developmental, abnormal, or

social disorders so that they require special education services according to the

conditions they experience (Ali, Gazadinda, & Rahma, 2020). Children with

special needs require special treatment because of developmental disorders and

namely genetic and hereditary factors, or external factors, namely mothers who

experience bleeding due to colliding with their womb or falling during pregnancy,

or eating food or drugs that injure them. fetus due to a malnourished fetus

(Desiningrum, 2017). Children with special needs have the right to grow and

develop in the midst of families, communities and nations. Children with special

needs have the right to get support from those closest to them, such as parents,

siblings, relatives, or people around them. Allah SWT has a noble purpose with

the presence of children with special needs that parents who have children with

special needs, and obedient and faithful humans must believe in the letter Al-

Munafiqun verse 9, namely:

love. Having a child with special needs is a challenge for parents and families to

being has a nature that tends to the teachings of monotheism. The tendency of a

child will continue to grow stronger if it is always nurtured and nurtured by

parents since the child is born, but on the contrary the nature that already exists in

the child will gradually disappear if it is not nurtured and guided towards a more

perfect (Firosad, 2015). In this case, parents play an important role in children's

achievement in school, because parents have the main role and responsibility for

the care and protection of children from infancy to adolescence. All parents have a

noble responsibility to provide physical, spiritual and mental education. This is

the goal of parents to provide guarantees in the development of their children. The

attention of parents in educating children in the family environment is very

services that are appropriate to their needs (Fitria, 2012). The purpose of

special/inclusive education is to provide the widest possible opportunity for all

children who have physical, emotional, mental and social disabilities or have the

potential for intelligence and special talents to obtain quality education in

accordance with their needs and abilities and to realize the implementation of

education that respects diversity and non-discriminatory for all education. By

educating children with special needs, they can understand and accept individual

diversity and differences (Rahayu, 2013).

Based on the Regulation of the State Minister for Women's Empowerment

and Child Protection of the Republic of Indonesia number 10 of 2011 concerning

namely general education and special/inclusive education, general education can

for children with special needs. With special education, children with special

needs can grow and develop, and hone their abilities according to their interests

and potential.

The number of children with special needs in Indonesia from year to year

continues to increase. The United Nations estimates that at least 10 percent of

school-age children have special needs. In Indonesia, the number of school-age

children, namely 5-14 years, is 42.8 million people. If you follow the estimates, it

is estimated that there are approximately 4.2 Indonesian children with special

needs. Other data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the number of

children with special needs in Indonesia in 2017 reached 1.6 children and will

well-being including giving encouragement and attention so that it can prevent

anxiety, increase self-esteem, and prevent psychological disorders (Kelana, 2022).

Support and acceptance from parents and other family members will provide

energy and decisions in children which will give energy and confidence in

children with special needs to try to learn and try new things related to life skills

and in the end can achieve according to their abilities, achievement is a collection

of the final results of a job that has been done, the assessment of the achievement

of children with special needs can be seen from the social emotional aspect,

academic competence and behavior (Ni'matuzahroh, 2016).

The social support obtained by children with special needs shows that

Types of Children with Special Needs in Special Schools Caring for Nagari

1. Mental retardation 27 people

Total 33 people

Based on the table above, there are 33 children with special needs at the

Nagari Children's Care Special School, there are 27 mentally retarded children

with 8 girls and 19 boys. Furthermore, 6 autistic children with male gender. Based

on initial observations on Monday, September 14, 2020, which the author

conducted at the Nagari Children's Care Special School, Akabiluru District, the

author saw 7 children who came to school with 3 girls and 4 boys. Children with

cannot be informed and does not want to listen to the advice given and fights

against the parents if advised so that the parents just let it go, and the child does

not want to go to school and do the assignments given even though all school

supplies and pocket money are given.

Based on an interview with the principal on Monday, May 24, 2021 at the

Nagari Children's Care Special School, Akabiluru District, it was stated that some

children lacked family support to provide encouragement, enthusiasm and

attention. Children do not want to go to school and prefer to go out to play with

their friends. Lack of attention and enthusiasm by parents causes children to not

want to go to school and there is one child who becomes a freight forwarder in the

what it is, not the world that people should have an open minded nature.

Qualitative research is carried out under natural conditions and is inventive

in nature. In qualitative research, is the key instrument. Therefore, research must

have broad theory and insight so that it can ask questions, analyze, and construct

objects under study to be clearer. This research emphasizes more on meaning and

value bound. Qualitative research is used if the problem is not clear, to find out

hidden meanings, to understand social interactions, to develop theories, to ensure

the truth of data, and to examine the history of development (Kelana, 2022).

Qualitative research can be interpreted as research that produces

descriptive data regarding spoken and written words, and observable behavior,

which describes Family Social Support for Children with Special Needs at the

School, Akabiluru District.

In this chapter the author will describe the results of the research that the

author has done through interviews and observations to key informants, namely 2

parents of children with special needs and the supporting informants are 2

children with special needs with 2 types of special needs namely mentally

retarded children and autistic children and teachers in the Nagari Children's Care

Special School, Akabiluru District. To describe the result data. The author is

guided by the results of observations and interviews that the authors did to

to all his complaints, sympathize or empathize with the problems he faces

2021, parents provide encouragement when children with special needs come to

school so that children with special needs feel happy when they are at school and

teachers at school teach with care and affection. Children with special needs get

attention from parents by taking them to school and waiting for them to come

home from school so that children with special needs feel excited to learn (Fitri &

Hidayati, 2021).

Based on the results of an interview with Mrs. E as the parent of RM's

child with special needs for mental retardation on June 15, 2021, as follows: Mrs.

E replied: "I as a parent of RM always give more attention so that my child can

develop like a normal child in general , the form of attention that I give is to

results of an interview with Mr. ANR as the parent of AN children with special

needs autism on June 15, 2021, as follows:

Mr. ANR replied: "I am a parent from AN who always pays attention, the

form of attention I give is that I always give my best for its development by

always checking in to the hospital every 2 weeks with expert doctor handling,

sending children to inclusive schools and accepting what children existence by

thinking about what treatment is best for children. With busy work, I still take the

time to see the development of children and teach them with skills that are in

accordance with their interests and potential so that children can be independent

individual needs, so that they can develop their potential to the fullest and teach

child who makes a mistake will be given advice and if the child cannot be advised

2022). Based on the results of the interview with Ibuk E, ANR's father and ME

teacher always give more attention to children's development. With busy work,

parents still take the time to pay attention by teaching skills according to their

interests and potential so that children can live more independently and children

can be like children in general. Reinforced by this, the emotional support that

children get is in the form of love, attention, trust, sympathy, empathy and

appreciation. Thus the child feels himself but there are still others who pay

attention, want to listen, sympathize or empathize with him (Seno, 2019).

2021, parents who take children to school and give advice to children so that they

are not naughty and do good to friends or teachers and always listen to what the

teacher says while studying. Parents always encourage children to be enthusiastic

about learning (Gafar, Hikmawati, Mu'Minah, & Supiati, 2021). Based on the

results of interviews that the author conducted with Ibu E as a parent of RM, a

child with special needs for mental retardation on June 15, 2021, as follows:

children can be independent by always providing motivation so that children can

do something useful for themselves. I always give advice to children not to do

things that are not desirable by always providing information so that children