Point of view about people and her feelings. From the first meeting until the last togetherness in the clinic, Hayden slowly but sure had made changes in Cassandra’s By applying changing strategy to treat her, it turns out that Cassandra finally showed progress. Changing strategy helps Cassandra to realize the rotation and changing media of learning, there is nothing monotone. Result, the research explores that there are five strategies for Hayden to treat Cassandra better with changing, managing, tolerating, preventing, and accommodating strategy. By applying sociological approach among the characters especially Hayden as the teacher and therapist and Cassandra as a special kid with special needs, it is appropriate to catch and underline the interaction between them (Leinger, 1979: 147) It takes the form of library research, which employs the descriptive techniques.

The objective of research is to explore Torey Hayden’s education strategy for Cassandra in Twilight Children. She tends to be impolite to say erratic speech, harm people, frighten friends, tell untrue story, manipulate story for her purpose, and trust nobody.

Cassandra is labeled as child with special needs because of her disability to create a good relationship with friends and adult. Cassandra, the child with the special needs in Twilight Children shows the real condition with the symptoms of behavioral problems. Twilight Children by Torey Hayden is the latest non-fiction of her that is very popular. The research describes real phenomena of children with special needs in America through analyzing a non-fiction, Twilight Children. The education strategy for cassandra in torey hayden’s twilight children (a study in children with special needs)

Twilight Children by Torey L. Hayden