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.
ISBN: | 9780007199051 |
Publication date: | 6th December 2004 |
Author: | Torey Hayden |
Publisher: | Element Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 336 pages |
Genres: |
Memoirs Popular psychology True stories of survival of abuse and injustice Child abuse Psychotherapy: child and adolescent Coping with abuse Child welfare and youth services Teaching of students with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties Autobiography: general Family psychology |