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One Child: a Teacher's Struggle to Save a Gifted and Troubled Girl
One Child a Teacher's Struggle to Save a Gifted and Troubled Girl Author:Torey L. Hayden When Sheila, at age 6, injures an even smaller child, she is remanded by the courts to a state hospital. Awaiting a vacancy there, she is enrolled in Torey Hayden's class of retarded and handicapped preadolescents. Over the months, Torey and others come to realize that this nearly autistic child is in fact exceptionally gifted...one with the I... more »Q of a genius. It becomes apparent to them that placement in any sort of institution setting would be grossly inappropriate to the child's particular case-especially after she is sexually molested by an uncle, an event that almost undoes all the positive work Torey has carried out with her. Torey and her friends fight in the courts, successfully, to have the ruling reversed and the child is kept in the family setting-without the uncle. The book follows the relationship of Torey and Sheila until it inevitably arrives at that moment when teacher and pupil must part....« less