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| Original Title: | One Child |
| ISBN: | 0062564439 (ISBN13: 9780062564436) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Sheila #1 |
| Characters: | Torey, Sheila |
Torey L. Hayden
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 4.25 | 10437 Users | 908 Reviews
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| Title | : | One Child: The True Story of a Tormented Six-Year-Old and the Brilliant Teacher Who Reached Out (Sheila #1) |
| Author | : | Torey L. Hayden |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | June 28th 2016 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published January 1st 1980) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Psychology. Autobiography. Memoir. Education. Biography |
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This beautiful and deeply moving tale recounts educational psychologist Torey Hayden's battle to unlock the emotions of a troubled and sexually abused child who, with the help of Hayden, was finally able to overcome her dark past and realise her full potential. Six-year-old Sheila was abandoned by her mother on a highway when she was four. A survivor of horrific abuse, she never spoke, never cried, and was placed in a class for severely retarded children after committing an atrocious act of violence against another child. Everyone thought Sheila was beyond salvation - except her teacher, Torey Hayden. With patience, skill, and abiding love, she fought long and hard to release a haunted little girl from her secret nightmare - and nurture the spark of genius she recognised trapped within Sheila's silence. This is the remarkable story of their journey together - an odyssey of hope, courage, and inspiring devotion that opened the heart and mind of one lost child to a new world of discovery and joy.Rating Epithetical Books One Child: The True Story of a Tormented Six-Year-Old and the Brilliant Teacher Who Reached Out (Sheila #1)
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Hard to put down. Took less than 24hrs to read.I purposefully read this book directly after "The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing" by Bruce Perry, which came out in 2007. Hayden's book was published in 1980, and it was a very different world then in education, especially when it came to children with special needs or histories of abuse, neglect, trauma, or unstable backgrounds. In a world where abused children could be
The first thing I want to tell you is how much this book made me cry. Buckets full. Maybe even enough to fill an ocean. Ugly cry, even. Unashamed, let-it-all-out, bawling. Thats how much. Im not even exaggerating. This is significant, because tearjerker movies get me to cry often, but in contrast, only a handful of books have managed to dissolve me into tears. With One Child, I cried often, and I cried long and hard. Its not only Sheilas circumstances that made me cry, but also because I was so
I remember reading this story as a child and being engrossed in it. It's reminiscent of "A child called It" because of its extreme depiction of a child in severe abuse and neglect.Reading again as an adult and as an educator who works with at risk children I was horrified. The story is a memoir written by a special ed teacher. She clearly wants to be praised and lauded for her amazing breakthrough with Sheila but all I could think was that Sheila needed to be put into foster care. She was
Torey Hayden is a teacher of those children society deems "garbage"...autistic, schizophrenic, emotionally damaged, suicidal. This was in the seventies and eighties, before autism became a popular disease. I read One Child, a book I've read before, which the story of Sheila, a six year old so abused and emotionally scarred that she takes a neighborhood child out to the woods and sets fire to him. Because no one else will take her into a normal classroom, Torey gets her. She's emaciated, owns one
I have read a few of Torey Hayden's books and I had been meaning to read this one for a long time. A usually with Hayden's books, it follows her experiences working with children with special needs and running a special needs class. The main character in the book is Shelia, a very troubled young girl. Shelia comes to Hayden's class at the age of 7, whilst waiting for a placement in a secure unit, after committing a horrible crime on another child. Shelia is a disruptive mute, whose worse
I am not prone to crying at movies or books but this simple story had me in tears on several occasions. This story was from a different era. When the child welfare system was ill equipped to deal with child abuse and children known to be suffering from severe neglect were left in horrific conditions. There were not enough social workers, foster homes, or welfare checks to go around. When child trauma and reactive attachment was managed by professionals with authoritative and controlling
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