Torey Hayden
Torey Hayden | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 May 1951 Livingston, Montana, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Whitman College |
| Known for | factual books about her experiences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | autism, Tourette syndrome, sexual abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome, elective mutism, selective mutism |
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[edit]
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[edit]
Non-fiction[edit]
- One Child (1980)
- Somebody Else’s Kids (1981)
- Murphy’s Boy (1983) / Silent Boy (British title for Murphy's Boy)
- Just Another Kid (1988)
- Ghost Girl (1991)
- The Tiger’s Child (1995)
- Beautiful Child (2002)
- Twilight Children (2005)
- Lost Child (2019)
- The Invisible Girl (2021)
Fiction[edit]
- 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)
References[edit]
- ^ "Torey Hayden - Biography". www.torey-hayden.com. Archived from the original on 2015-11-01. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ "The Books". Torey Hayden official website. Archived from the original on 2009-02-28. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
- ^ "Biography". Torey Hayden official website. Archived from the original on 2015-11-01. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ^ "Hall of Fame 2007 Torey Hayden Author". National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
- 1951 births
- American expatriates in the United Kingdom
- Autism activists
- American child psychologists
- Living people
- People from Livingston, Montana
- University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development alumni
- Whitman College alumni
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children people