![]() ![]() 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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