Silent Boy: He was a Frightened Boy who Refused to Speak - Until a Teacher's Love Broke Through the Silence

When special education teacher Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin' he was barricaded under a table. Desperately afraid of the world around him' he hadn't spoken a word in eight years. He was considered hopeless' incurable' but Hayden refused to believe it' though she realised it might well take a miracle to break through the walls he had built around himself. With unwavering devotion and gentle' patient love' she set out to free him - and slowly uncovered a shocking violent history and a terrible secret that an unfeeling bureaucracy had simply filed away and forgotten. But she never gave up on this tragic "lost case." For a trapped and frightened boy desperately needed her help - and she knew in her heart she could not rest easy until she had rescued him from the darkness.