Chiu Man-ying, a teacher at the Taipei School for the Hearing Impaired, says that hearing-impaired students invent signs of their own. These function as a kind of shorthand and build bonds among communities of peers. Take the sign they use for "embarrassed," for example.
台北市立啟聰學校邱滿英老師指出，即使是聽障生，也會在不同世代發明一些只在他們之間流通的共同符號，一則可以很快理解，再者代表一種同儕間的感情和默契。