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This In accordance with it, this study purposes to develop and apply therapeutic recreation program based on physical activities helping attention deficit, hyperactivity and impulsiveness of children having ADHD, and to verify change of sociality by observing decrease of overall problem behaviors. In order to proceed this study, it is divided as developing part and applying part of therapeutic recreation program. At the level of developing therapeutic recreation program, it was developed with therapeutic recreation experts and juvenile physical education experts based previously on Peterson & Gunn's leisure competence model, then premised on client-oriented approach since it purposes to treat ADHD which is the emotional behavior disorder. Experiment group for applying the program consists of 3 elementary school second to third grade children diagnosed as ADHD. Then, program was conducted for total 9 weeks, 18 sessions for 60 minutes per each. In accordance with A-B-A experiment design, this program was conducted as baseline(3 sessions), intervention(12 sessions) and repeated baseline(3 sessions). After each session, frequency of attention deficit, hyperactivity and impulsiveness was observed and recorded through behavior observation. The result is as follows. First, the reduction of impulsive speech and behavior, improvement of social skills, reduction of anxiety were found to A child. Second, hyperactivity and impulsivity include nervousness were reduced to B child. Third, teaching and control of his ability, self-expression and social skills were improved to C child.