Torey Hayden

Torey Hayden is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books, relating to child psychology. As such, she is a child psychologist, as well as a special ed. teacher and university lecturer. Her non-fiction works are from her real-life experiences dealing with traumatized children. She deals with such issues as autism, Tourette syndrome, sexual abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome, and her speciality of selective mutism (formerly known as elective mutism). Torey is divorced with one daughter, Sheena.