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The Purpose of This Study was to Find Out the Effects of Participation in Yoga Programs on development of social-emotional behaviors of Handicapped Person. The subjects were 50 Handicapped Person for special education, and the subjects were randomly devided into participant group(n=25) and non-participants group (n=25). Meadow/Kendall social-emotional asessment inventory for the deaf students (1980) by Kim(1990) were administered by specialized teachers of the students. The statistical procedures used to analysed the hypotheses were ANCOVAs. The major findings of this study were that Handicapped Person who regularly participated in yoga activities had significantly higher level of the development of social adaptation, self-consciousness, and emotional adaptation rather than non-participants. It could
be concluded in this study that sport activities had significant effects on the development of social-emotional behaviors of Handicapped Person.