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The study aimed at investigating the psychological problems faced by girls with special needs, their causes, and proposed solutions. A questionnaire to investigate the psychological problems was administered to a sample of 162 girls with hearing, sight and physical disabilities at the special education schools and the Center of Special needs students in Almadinah Almonawara. Their age ranged from 16 to 28 years. The results revealed that the most common psychological problems were emotional disturbance and frustration. In addition, there was a significant statistical effect of the variables “type of disability, age, marital status and work” on the psychological problems among girls with special needs. The most prominent causes of these problems were the lack of health services, underestimation of the community and lake of educational services and professional opportunities. The most important suggestions for overcoming the psychological problems were improving health, education and rehabilitation services, the provision of job opportunities and appropriate salaries, changing the look of society, equality and non-bias against them, and preventing the use of violence, and the issuing legislations and laws that grant them facilities. (Published abstract)