Your Child Is Smarter Than You Think

Wanda Draper, PhD, is an internationally recognized consultant, teacher, and author and a professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma. Four decades of teaching at the preschool, elementary, high school, and university levels resulted in writing textbooks, consulting in schools, and conducting seminars in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Romania. Her work with thousands of parents and children provided insight for over fifteen hundred quotes in publications around the world. Wanda graduated from Texas Woman's University, with additional studies at Harvard University and The International Center for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva, Switzerland.
She consults privately with adults on developmental and parent-child relationship issues. For seven years she was a consultant for the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics and the State School for the Deaf.
As author of sixteen books and sixty audio and video programs, she has appeared on television, radio, and in newspaper and magazine media, including "The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Parent "magazine," "CNN World News, " The Oprah Winfrey Show," and Hong Kong Radio.""
Her work as a developmental epistemologist framed her contributions as a court consultant and expert witness in over one hundred capital crime and child custody cases. Twenty years of teaching human development to medical doctors in their psychiatry residency programs inspired her to found the Early Childhood Development Center, affiliated with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She also served as co-director of the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Center for Young Children in the OU Department of Psychiatry, and president of Education Futures International. She is a recipient of the prestigious "Regents' Award for Excellence in Teaching "at the University of Oklahoma.