Torey Hayden

Torey Hayden is an educational psychologist and a special education teacher who, since 1979, has chronicled her real-life struggles in the classroom in a succession of bestselling books, including Lost Child and One Child. Her books span subjects such as autism, sexual abuse, Tourette syndrome and selective mutism. She currently lives and writes in the UK, where she works with charities such as the NSPCC, Childline, the Samaritans and the Citizen's Advice Bureau.