Torey Hayden

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 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)

External links:

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