sentences:  There is a need to standardise the use of Singapore Sign Language (SgSL) based on cultural elements.Language instruction of Signing Exact English for the Deaf does not get used when they are amongst themselves in the deaf community.Despite SEE-II being adopted as the language of instruction among deaf children in Singapore since 1977, and its use as a system of communication in the Deaf community in Singapore, it is of utmost importance to preserve and maintain local signs invented by the Deaf community in Singapore since the early 1950s.