Publisher's Synopsis
This account based on the author's own experience, is the story of a year spent teaching a class of emotionally disturbed children. Torey Hayden describes her attempts to help such children as Leslie who is autistic and, at 7, still wears nappies, or Mariana, aged 8, who is severely backward and has a history of precocious sexual behaviour and Geraldin and Shermona, who are traumatised victims of the troubles in Northern Ireland. She describes her struggle to win the trust of these children many of whom, by the year's end have made spectacular progress.;Torey Hayden is an educational psychologist and the author of several other books including "One Child", "Somebody Else's Kids" and "Murphy's Boy".
