7/7/2023 0 Comments One Child by Torey L. Hayden![]() ![]() Each of them struggles with severe challenges, such as schizophrenia, suicidal thoughts, seizures, and OCD. ![]() According to state regulations, classrooms such as Torey's may hold no more than eight students, and she currently has a full roster of kids aged six to nine. Her students are the most severely handicapped children in the system, the ones everyone else has given up on. Her assistants are a high school dropout named Anton and a teenage volunteer named Whitney. Her classroom is a long, secluded room with a single window at the end. Special education teacher Torey Hayden always tries to do the best she can with what she has. In 1994, One Child was adapted into a Lifetime television movie titled Untamed Love. In addition to her work as a child psychologist and special education teacher, Hayden is the author of several fiction and non-fiction books. Set in the early 1970s, the book follows Hayden's experiences working with Shelia, a severely disturbed yet incredibly gifted little girl who is placed in Hayden's special education class to await institutionalization. ![]() ![]() Published in 1980, One Child: The True Story of a Tormented Six-Year-Old and the Brilliant Teacher Who Reached Out is a memoir by child psychologist Torey Hayden. ![]()
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