Download or read book The Cry of the Gull written by Emmanuelle Laborit and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By chance, her father discovered sign language and its value to deaf people while listening to a radio interview of a deaf American named Alfredo Corrado. Emmanuelle's father took her to meet Alfredo Corrado and his interpreter Bill Moody in Vincennes, outside of Paris. There, for the first time, she met an adult who was deaf, who didn't wear hearing aids, and who communicated by using his hands and facial expressions.