She has also written three books of fiction in addition to her non-fiction books (see below). When in the UK, she has worked primarily with charities associated with child neglect and abuse, including Childline, the NSPCC, the Samaritans and the Citizens' Advice Bureau. The writer shows strength and sensitivity and vulnerability and fine attention to detail. In 1985, she gave birth to her daughter Sheena. Murphy's Boy is a beautifully written true story about an elective mute child who struggles with the after effects of childhood abuse.

While there, she also worked with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the university hospitals.Ī 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. She received a Master's in Special Education from Montana State University Billings in 1975 and went on to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis where she studied for a doctorate in educational psychology. She then attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Hayden attended high school in Billings, Montana and graduated in 1969. Subjects covered in her books include autism, Tourette syndrome, sexual abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome, and elective mutism (now called selective mutism), her specialty.

Hayden (born in Livingston, Montana), 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. Murphys Boy is a beautifully written true story about an elective mute child who struggles with the after effects of childhood abuse.

Murphy's Boy by Torey L. Hayden