At age ten, he was sent to a school for the deaf and blind in Tainan, and he started using a hearing aid to help him learn how to read lips. After three months, so it would be easier for his family to look after him, he was transferred to a similar type of school in Fengyuan.
10 歲被送到台南盲啞學校，林良材開始戴起助聽器學習唇語；3 個月後，為了方便家人就近照顧，又轉到盲啞學校豐原分校。