Chiu, who got the Wu Deng Jiang signing competition going by taking hearing-impaired students to perform a song on TV 28 years ago, says that her community-college signing classes are always full and that interest in learning to sign remains high. In fact, on 5 September, a group of her hearing students will compete in an invitational signing-performance competition prior to the 21st Summer Deaflympics Taipei 2009.
28 年前帶著聽障學生在電視上表演手語歌，開啟五燈獎手語比賽熱潮的邱滿英說，學手語的人氣始終未減，她在社區大學開的手語課程堂堂爆滿，今年 9 月 5 日，她還要帶著一群聽人學員，參加「2009 台北聽障奧運會」會前邀請賽的手語表演。