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Annemarie Roeper, Ed.D. is an educational consultant with more than 50 year’s experience, specializing in the educational needs of gifted children and their families. She sees herself as an advocate for children, and she considers that her most important contribution is her concept of Self Actualization and Interdependence (SAI), a basis for allowing the natural growth of children.

In 1941, Annemarie Roeper and her husband George Roeper, founded the Roeper City and Country School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, one of the nation’s oldest and best known private schools for gifted children. The Roeper Philosophy. After retiring in 1980, Annemarie moved to the California Bay area where she started the Roeper Consultation Service for Gifted Children, and founded the Bay Area Center for the Gifted and Creative.

Dr. Roeper holds an Honorary Doctorate in Education from Eastern Michigan University. She is an editor of the Roeper Review, a national journal on gifted child education and is the author of the books, Educating Children for Life: The Modern Learning Community, (Trillium Press), and Annemarie Roeper: Selected Writings and Speeches, (Freespirit).  She has also published hundreds of articles on giftedness and has received numerous awards and honors for her work.

Additionally, Dr. Roeper co-founded the Academy of the Gifted in Michigan. She has been a board member of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and Michigan’s Psychoanalytic Society.

In 1991, she was elected as one of three US delegates to the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. In 1999, she was presented the National Association for Gifted Children President’s Award, an honor rarely bestowed.