Learners with Special Needs: Challenges, Learning Styles, and Methods of Teaching: A Sustainable Development Goal-Aligned Research

This paper aims to investigate the challenges facing special needs college students, especially visually impaired students in foreign language learning, and the techniques used by the teachers to facilitate their learning process and to reduce their problems. The research also focuses on evaluating and addressing students’ individual needs and the inclusion of multiple intelligences in learning. It is qualitative research that addresses three SDGS which are 4,10, and 17 respectively. The SDGs focus on equal opportunity, inequality in education and collaboration for achieving the goals of the SDGs. Thirty learners with special needs contributed to this study as well as three teachers. The main scope of this study is to pinpoint the challenges facing these students and the application of multiple intelligence theory in their learning environment. The main scope of this study is to pinpoint the challenges facing these students and the application of multiple intelligence theory in their learning environment. Last but not least, the techniques used in the classes to illuminate these challenges or the strategies used. The results showed that many challenges face these learners as aphasia, curriculum design that needs to be adopted according to their needs and learning styles and many others.