- Doreen Granpeesheh
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Doreen Granpeesheh Born Tehran, Iran Nationality Iran Fields Clinical psychologist
Board certified behavior analystInstitutions University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Known for Applied behavior analysis
Lovaas technique
Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD)
ACT Today! (Autism Care and Treatment Today!)Influences Ivar Lovaas Notable awards American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists Winokur Award (2011)
Autism Society of America, Wendy F. Miller Professional of the Year Award (2007)
Parenting Arizona, Raising the Bar Award (2007)Doreen Granpeesheh, PhD, BCBA is an American clinical psychologist and producer of the independent award-winning documentary Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back, which depicts four children's progress as they recover from autism.[1]
Granpeesheh works worldwide with families of children on the autism spectrum, many of whom have fully recovered and are currently neurotypical children.[2] By 1990, she founded and is executive director of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), an institute which implements early, intensive Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy in combination with Biomedical intervention.[2] Moreover, Granpeesheh is the founder and president of ACT Today! (Autism Care and Treatment Today!), which provides financial support to families that are unable to pay for validated treatment.[2]
She obtained her psychology degree from the California Board of Psychology, and is married with three children. In 2010, she completed a study which found that 6 of 14 severely autistic children who obtained treatment by CARD had fully recovered.[3]
Early childhood and education
Granpeesheh was born in Tehran, Iran and went to school in England and Switzerland. Because of the Islamic Revolution, her parents chose for her to live in the United States where she completed grade school. At fifteen years of age, she received her high school diploma in California.[4]
At age sixteen, she attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she met her college professor Ivar Lovaas, who developed a widely-used teaching method for autistic children which has undergone approval by the Surgen General's office. Nevertheless, Granpeesheh guided Lovaas in his 1987 study which documented 9 of 19 autistic children who obtained early, intensive ABA therapy had demonstrated typical intellectual functioning and placement in general education classrooms.[4][5]
References
Autism cure movement Issues Autism therapies Causes of autism Sociological and cultural aspects Organizations Athletes Against Autism Autism Research Institute Autism Society of America Autism Speaks Autistica Center for Autism and Related Disorders Generation Rescue Talk About Curing Autism Thoughtful House People Andrew Wakefield Bernard Rimland Temple Grandin Doreen Granpeesheh Stanley Greenspan Raun Kaufman Ivar Lovaas Jenny McCarthy Paul Shattock Elizabeth Emken - ^ "Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back - The Story". Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc.. http://www.recoveredautism.com/TheStory.asp. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
- ^ a b c "About Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh". Center for Autism & Related Disorders. 2011. http://www.centerforautism.com/about-dr-granpeesheh.php. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
- ^ Mary Beth Faller (November 12, 2010). "Autism therapy group says it cured 6 kids". The Arizona Republic. http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2010/11/12/20101112autism-study-arizona.html. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
- ^ a b "Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh - About". Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh. 2010. http://drdoreentv.com/about.html. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
- ^ Lovaas O.Ivar. Behavioral Treatment and Normal Educational and Intellectual Functioning in Young Autistic Children. ScienceDirect. 1987;55(1):3-9.
External links
Categories:- Autism researchers
- Iranian psychologists
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- People from Tehran
- Living people
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