Torey Hayden
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Torey Hayden (born 1951 in Livingston, Montana, USA) is a child psychologist, special education teacher, university lecturer and writer who has written books about children under her care.
Hayden moved from the USA to Wales in 1980. She married a Scottish man in 1982 and had a daughter Sheena in 1985. She lives currently in Scotland.
Hayden writes fictionalized accounts of her real-life experiences with teaching children with special needs. Her pupils have been autistic, with Tourette syndrome or victims of sexual abuse and fetal alcohol syndrome. Her specialty, and the subject of most of her books, is selective mutism.
Books:
- One Child (1980)
- Somebody Else’s Kids (1981)
- Murphy’s Boy (1983)
- The Sunflower Forest (fiction, 1984)
- Just Another Kid (1988)
- Ghost Girl (1991)
- The Tiger’s Child (1995)
- The Mechanical Cat (fiction, 1999)
- (not published in English but in Swedish, Italian, Finnish and Japanese)
- Beautiful Child (2002)
- The Very Worst Thing (fiction, 2003)
- Twilight Children (2005)
External links:
- Official/personal page (http://www.torey-hayden.com/)de:Torey L. Hayden