Annemarie observed the strong independent educational ideals very early in life in the school that her parents were creating.
After the NSDAP party came to power in Austria, Max Bondy sold the school, struggling with this notion that he was not German because of his heritage.
[2] Prior to the German annexation of Austria, Annemarie had planned on higher education with Anna Freud.
While a medical student at the University of Vienna in 1937, she was the youngest person to ever be accepted to study child psychoanalysis with Sigmund and Anna Freud.
Roeper was able to flee with her father on the last train across the Austrian border before Germany unified with Austria while Sigmund and Anna Freud fled soon after.
Annemarie Roeper's ideas about young childhood cognition caught the eye of Joan Ganz Cooney, and together they worked and consulted on the development of the Sesame Street television show for children.
[3] Roeper taught courses on gifted education at Oakland University in the Greater Detroit area in Michigan.
[2] In 1989, Roeper received the President's Award from the National Association for Gifted Children for a lifetime of distinguished service to the field.
[6] She also developed the Annemarie Roeper Method of Qualitative Assessment to provide a deeper understanding of a child's personality and abilities.
[3] Roeper was active with the Merrill Palmer Institute in the 1950s, which was a group of pediatricians, psychologists, and educators in Detroit that met to discuss children's emotional development.