One Child

One Child is a memoir by American author and psychologist Torey Hayden. It was first published in the United States in 1980, becoming a best seller in the 00s. This book has been translated into 27 languages and dramatized as an interactive opera. It was also loosely adapted as the 1994 Lifetime television film Untamed Love, starring Ashlee Lauren, Lois Foraker and Cathy Lee Crosby. Goodreads rated the book 4.26 out of 5. The book has inspired people to move into Special Educational Need careers.The book opens with Hayden, a special education teacher, reading a newspaper article about a six-year-old girl named Sheila who didn't speak sometimes, was silenced by abuse and abandonment and beat up and burned a three-year-old boy a couple of days prior. As there was no place for her at the hospital, she has a reactive attachment disorder as a student in Hayden's class and as a result of getting abused and abandoned in Hayden's class, where she remains for about five months. A sequel to this book, The Tiger's Child, was published in 1995.