The purpose of this study was to analyze the nine years' experience of the special sports' training course for physically handicapped students which has been offered since 1983 by Department of Health and Physical Education Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University. Students' evaluations and opinions on this course and physical conditions were utilized for analysis. The results obtained were as follows:
(1) The total students participated in this course from 1983 to 1991 were 87, including 75 males (86.2%) and 12 female (13.8%).
(2) The number of students enrolled in the course was much smaller than that of the special training course of Tokyo University.
(3) Among the diseases that the students suffered from, the most numerous were movement disabilities (57.1%, bone fracture, dislocation, sprain, etc.), and cardiac (14.3%, ventricular tachycardia, right bundle branch block, etc.) and urinary diseases (11.9%, nephritis and nephrosis) were next in order of numbers.
(4) Many sports were introduced into the course for the students suffered from various disease. Frequently introduced sports were table tennis, archery and roller-skating.
(5) All of the students were satisfied with the course, although one student did not recognize the existence of the course.