Somebody Elses Kids
Torey L. Hayden
333 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0399126023
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Language: English
Publish: April 30, 1981
AdultAutistic Spectrum DisorderBiographyBiography MemoirEducationMemoirMental HealthNonfictionPsychologyTeaching
“Were all just somebody else’s kids…”A small seven-year-old boy who couldn’t speak except to repeat weather forecasts and other people’s words…A beautiful little girl of seven who had been brain damaged by terrible parental beatings and was so ashamed because she couldn’t learn to read…A violently angry ten-year-old who had seen his stepmother murder his father and had been sent from one foster home to another …A shy twelve-year-old from a Catholic school which put her out when she became pregnant…”What do we matter?””Why do you care?”They were four problem children-put in Torey Hayden’s class because no one else knew what to do with them. Together, with the help of a remarkable teacher who cared too much to ever give up, they became almost a family, able to give each other the love and understanding they had found nowhere else.