STUDI DESKRIPTIF KEMAMPUAN PENGENALAN DIRI PADA ANAK TUNANETRA

Abstract

ABSTRACT Self recognizing was one’s perception toward oneself either physically, psychologically, socially or morally. Helmi (1995) said that self recognizing was done by self expressing and fed back from others. The research which was done to ten blind children had purpose to describe self recognizing ability in SDLB-A Bhayangkari Trenggalek. This research was focused to the children’s psychological perception i.e. their intrapersonal intelligence. The self recognizing ability in this research oriented to Johari Window concept which consisted of four areas i.e. areas I, II, III, and IV. This research used qualitative approach with descriptive research arrangement. The data collection methods were questionnaire, interview, and observation. The techniques of data analysis were data collection, reduction, display, and verification. The techniques of checking the data validation were the data triangulation and source. The result of this research indicated that the majority of blind children were in area I, five children, four children in area II, one child in area III, and no one in area IV. Area I had one child with low vision and four children totally blind. Area II had four total blind children. Area III had one child with low vision. Area IV had no one. Keywords: Self recognizing, psychology, Johari Window