One Child

Informationen zum Autor Torey Hayden is an educational psychologist and a special education teacher who, since 1979, has chronicled her struggles in the classroom in a succession of bestselling books. She currently lives and writes in North Wales. Find her on MySpace at www.myspace.com/torey_hayden Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Torey Hayden, Torey L Hayden, Torey L. Hayden
• Verlag: Element Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.12.2004
• EAN: 9780007199051
• ISBN: 978-0-00-719905-1
• Abmessung: 110 mm x 178 mm x 24 mm
• Themen: Sachbuch > Psychologie, Esoterik, Spiritualität, Anthroposophie > Angewandte Psychologie; Biography: general, EDUCATION / Special Education / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Child abuse