Honor the Inner Emotional and Cognitive World of Your Child: A Tribute to AnneMarie Roeper and Her Influence In the Gifted Community will be held as a prelude the National Association of Gifted Children conference that’s coming to Colorado. Roeper was co-founder of The Roeper School, founder of schools in Germany based on a psychoanalytic understanding of human development, a consultant on the development of TV’s Sesame Street and recipient of NAGC’s President’s Award for a lifetime distinguished service to gifted education.