Ann Kaiser, professor of special education and professor of psychology and the holder of the Susan Gray Chair in Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, has been selected to receive the J.E. Wallace Wallin Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council for Exceptional Children. The award honors lifelong professional contributions to the education of children and youth with exceptionalities. She will receive the award at the Council for Exceptional Children 2014 Convention and Expo in Philadelphia on April 9.
Professor Kaiser is a graduate of Kansas State University in Manhattan. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in developmental and child psychology at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Dr. Kaiser joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University in 1982.