Contact: Robbie Ward
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A national teaching association is honoring a Mississippi State special education professor for her dedication in helping provide quality educations to students preparing to teach in the field.
Lynne S. Arnault recently received the Association of Teacher Educators' 2008 Distinguished Clinician of the Year Award at the organization's national meeting in New Orleans.
The award recognizes education professionals with demonstrated histories of service to current teachers, pre-service teachers and others working with students in the kindergarten-12th grades.
Robert Schuck, a past ATE president who nominated Arnault for the award, said selection of a university faculty member is rare. Typically, the honor goes to a public school teacher, he added.
"I am impressed by Lynne's dedication to the MSU community and to the children and educators of the state of Mississippi," said Schuck, who was a distinguished visiting professor during in the mid-1980s in MSU's department of counseling, educational psychology and special education.
Arnault, who holds a doctorate from the University of Memphis, is a specialist in early-childhood special education services and the use of assistive technology with children and youth with disabilities. She joined the MSU faculty in 1980.
The Association of Teacher Educators is a national organization composed of professionals in the education field, including school administrators, kindergarten-high school teachers, and faculty and administrators at colleges and universities.
NEWS EDITORS/DIRECTORS: For more information, contact Dr. Arnault at 662-325-8262 or lsa@ra.msstate.edu.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.