In this paper, we define and study a kind of Steinberg representation for linear algebraic groups of a particular kind, called groups of parahoric type, defined overa finite field; in particular, when G is the group of F -points of a connected reductive quasisplit group defined over F which splits over an unramified extension of F , the quotients of parahoric subgroups of G by their congruence subgroups are groups of parahoric type. In particular, under certain conditions on the residual characteristic p of F , we determine the irreducible factors of the Steinberg representation of a group G of parahoric type associated to a pseudo-Borel subgroup of G in the case when G is special, that is a quotient of a maximal special parahoric subgroup of G.