This study set out to investigate the effects of an experience-based reading education
program on the self-esteem of students with hearing impairment through its application to them
and search for methods of reading education fit for their characteristics in school. The subjects
include five students with hearing impairment attending a special school in C City, Gangwon
Province. Consisting of library-based reading education and picture books, an experience-based
reading education program was administered to them. Both quantitative and qualitative analysis
was conducted to test the research questions. The findings show that there was a significant
increase in the self-esteem of the experiment group and that the program had positive effects
on the subfactors of self-esteem and the individual analyses of the subjects. If an experience-based
reading education program is run according to the developmental stages of students with hearing
impairment in the field of education, it will generate even more effects.