Beautiful Child: The Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her - Torey L. Hayden

Venus - A mute child who sat on a wall in the school playground and refused to move. Venus became a pupil of Haydens in her special needs class made up of 5 pupils - yet despite Haydens experience even Venus became a struggle and pushed Hayden to her professional limits. With family problems and the liklihood that her uneducated sister was actually her mother - the only person venus would attempt to communcate with was her sister. At home she ...
...room cold and hungry - she was sent to school but rarely attended and her sister (or mother) is the only person who actually seemed to care. Until now. Hayden slowly but surely encourages Venus down from the wall and into the classroom and after a lengthy period of time manages to engage with the child evenutally resulting private conversations on lunch breaks to which they both look forward to. However Venus is a distrubed child - she screams ...

carysb 20.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Beautiful Child: The Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her - Torey L. Hayden

Beautiful Child is a book written by Torey Hayden an educational psychologist and a special -education teacher. Her work chronicled in a series of books, was based in America. This true story is about a young girl who is trapped in silence, and the teacher who refuses to give up on her. As the story unfolds Torey works hard to reach the young girl who is electively mute, trying to encourage her to speak . I found myself not wanting to put this book ...
...this little girls life behind closed doors is unveiled. However with the help and support of Torey and the team, she will find empowerment and be able to achieve a better future. I reccomend this book to anyone working with special needs children and/or who loves emotive stories. It's wonderful. ...

EMPORIUM 22.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Beautiful Child: The Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her - Torey L. Hayden

Beautiful Child By Torey Hayden This is my favourite ever book. It is very emotional but also amazing. It tells a story of one girl who never reacts to anything, never talks, and never listens. Her favourite place is sitting on her wall, which she refuses to come down from. This book was very useful, and the teqniques Torey uses are very interesting. I would certainly read it again, but only after my friends have finished with it! This story is ...

Strawberry-Tess 05.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Beautiful Child: The Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her - Torey L. Hayden