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The present study aimed to identify the most important problems of mentally handicapped students in the Qassim region from the point of view of parents and propose solutions to these problems, As well as identify the impact of differences in the light of the student's age variable, and the degree of disability, and the educational level of the parent, the monthly income of the family, and sex of the parent who fills out the questionnaire (father, mother), and sex of the student. The study sample consisted of 196 student's guardian, in the schools and the Ministry of Education of the following three Directorates (Buraydah, Onaizah, and Rass). In the current study used questionnaires problems mentally handicapped students (prepared by the researcher).The results of the study indicated that the current problems of the mentally handicapped students in the field of psychological came to the first rank of the highest average account (2.78), then the economic sphere and education, and social and behavioral while domestic sphere came in ranked last, with an average account (2.23), And all were moderately. And the lack of statistically significant differences (a= 0.05) attributable to sex or age student or the impact of the degree of disability (simple - medium) or the impact of the educational level of the parent or the impact of monthly income, or the impact of the sex of the parent who fill out questionnaire in all areas. While the study showed a statistically significant difference (a = 0.05) due to the effect of the degree of disability in favor of medium degree of disability. (Published abstract)