- Torey Hayden
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name = Torey Hayden
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birth_date = birth date and age|1951|5|21
birth_place = Livingston,Montana ,United States
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residence =United States , (since 1980)Wales
nationality = American
field =autism ,Tourette syndrome ,sexual abuse ,fetal alcohol syndrome ,elective mutism
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alma_mater =Whitman College
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known_for = factual books about her experiences
prizes =Victoria Lynn Hayden, known as Torey L. Hayden (born
May 21 ,1951 inLivingston, Montana , U.S.), is a child psychologist, special education teacher, university lecturer and writer of non-fiction books based on her real-life experiences with teaching and counselling children with special needs. [http://www.torey-hayden.com/the_books.htm]Subjects covered in her books include
autism ,Tourette syndrome ,sexual abuse ,fetal alcohol syndrome , and elective mutism (now calledselective mutism ), her specialty.Hayden attended high school in
Billings, MT and graduated in 1969. She then attendedWhitman College inWalla Walla, WA .A little time after having written her most famous book "
One Child ", Hayden moved to Wales in 1980 and got married to a Scot called Ken two years later. In 1985, she gave birth to her daughter Sheena. Hayden is now divorced. [http://www.torey-hayden.com/biography.htm]She has also written three books of fiction in addition to her non-fiction books (see below).
Works
*"
One Child " (1980) [http://www.torey-hayden.com/one_child.htm]
*"Somebody Else’s Kids" (1981) [http://www.torey-hayden.com/somebody_elses_kids.htm]
*"Murphy’s Boy" (1983) [http://www.torey-hayden.com/murphys_boy.htm]
*"The Sunflower Forest" (fiction, 1984) [http://www.torey-hayden.com/sunflower_forest.htm]
*"Just Another Kid" (1988) [http://www.torey-hayden.com/just_another_kid.htm]
*"Ghost Girl" (1991) [http://www.torey-hayden.com/ghost_girl.htm]
*"The Tiger’s Child" (1995) [http://www.torey-hayden.com/the_tigers_child.htm]
*"The Mechanical Cat" (fiction, 1999) [http://www.torey-hayden.com/the_mechanical_cat.htm]
**(not published in English but in Swedish, Italian, Finnish, Japanese, and Indonesian)
*"Beautiful Child" (2002) [http://www.torey-hayden.com/beautiful-child.htm]
*"The Very Worst Thing" (fiction, 2003) [http://www.torey-hayden.com/the-very-worst-thing.htm]
*"Twilight Children" (2005) [http://www.torey-hayden.com/twilight-children.htm]
*"Silent Boy " (British title for Murphy's Boy)
*"Overheard In A Dream" (English title for The Mechanical Cat)External links
* [http://www.torey-hayden.com/ Official/personal page]
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