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 USA to Wales 1980. She married a Scottish man 1982 and had a daughter Sheena 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.

Books:

One Child (1980)
Somebody ElseÃÂÃÂs Kids (1981)
MurphyÃÂÃÂs Boy (1983)
The Sunflower Forest (fiction, 1984)
Just Another Kid (1988)
Ghost Girl (1991)
The TigerÃÂÃÂs Child (1995)
The Mechanical Cat (fiction, 1999)
- (not published in English but in Swedish, Italian, Finnish and Japanese)
Beautiful Child (2002)

External links:

Official/personal page at http://www.torey-hayden.com/