One Child

From the publisher: "Finally, a beginning... The time had finally come. The time I had been waiting for through all these long months that I knew sooner or later had to occur. Now it was here. She had surprised me so much by actually crying that for a moment I did nothing but look at her. Then I gathered her into my arms, hugging her tightly. She clutched onto my shirt so that I could feel the dull pain of her fingers digging into my skin. She cried and cried and cried. I held her and rocked the chair back and on its rear legs, feeling my arms and chest get damp from the tears and her hot breath and the smallness of the room." ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Victoria Lynn Hayden, known as Torey L. Hayden (born May 21, 1951 in Livingston, Montana, U.S.), is a child psychologist, special education teacher, university lecturer and writer of non-fiction books based on her real-life experiences with teaching and counselling children with special needs. Subjects covered in her books include autism, Tourette syndrome, sexual abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome, and elective mutism (now called selective mutism), her specialty. Hayden attended high school in Billings, MT and graduated in 1969. She then attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. A little time after having written her most famous book 'One Child,' Hayden moved to Wales in 1980 and got married to a Scot called Ken two years later. In 1985, she gave birth to her daughter Sheena. Hayden is now divorced. She has also written three books of fiction in addition to her non-fiction books." -- WikipediaKeywords: EDUCATION SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN