Torey Hayden

Victoria Lynn Hayden, known as Torey L. Hayden (born 21 May 1951 in Livingston, Montana, U.S.^[1]), is a special education teacher, university lecturer and writer of non-fiction books based on her real-life experiences with teaching and counseling children with special needs and also of fiction books.^[2]

Subjects covered in her books include autism, Tourette syndrome, sexual abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome, and elective mutism (now called selective mutism), her specialty.

Biography[]

Hayden attended high school in Billings, Montana and graduated in 1969. She attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She received a master's degree in special education from Montana State University Billings in 1975 and moved to University of Minnesota in Minneapolis for a doctorate in educational psychology. While there, she also worked with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the university hospitals.

Hayden moved to Wales in 1980 and married a Scotsman named Ken in 1982. In 1985 they had a daughter (Sheena). Hayden is divorced.^[3]

In Wales Hayden has worked primarily with charities associated with child neglect and abuse, including Childline, the NSPCC, the Samaritans and the Citizens' Advice Bureau.^[4]

She has written five books of fiction in addition to her non-fiction books (see below).

Works[]

Non-fiction[]

• One Child (1980)
• Somebody Else’s Kids (1981)
• Murphy’s Boy (1983) / Silent Boy (British title for Murphy's Boy)
• (1988)
• Ghost Girl (1991)
• The Tiger’s Child (1995)
• Beautiful Child (2002)
• Twilight Children (2005)
• Lost Child (2019)

Fiction[]

• The Sunflower Forest (1984)
• The Mechanical Cat (1998) / Overheard In A Dream (English title for The Mechanical Cat)
• The Very Worst Thing (2003)
• Innocent Foxes (2011) (In UK)

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