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In 2010, she completed a study which found that 6 out of 14 autistic children who obtained treatment by CARD "had fully recovered".
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Doreen Granpeesheh
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Doreen Granpeesheh, Doctor of Philosophy, BCBA-D. is an Iranian-American clinical psychologist and producer of the independent award-winning documentary Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back, which depicts four children"s learning achievements as their parents recount how they recovered from autism.
Career
She obtained her psychology degree from the California Board of Psychology. (Autism Care and Treatment Today!), which provides financial support to families who are unable to pay for validated treatment. In 1990, Granpeesheh founded and is chief executive officer of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), a nationally recognized clinic that implements early, intensive Applied Behavior Analysis (American Bar Association) therapy.
Granpeesheh co-created Skills—an online assessment and American Bar Association treatment guide for children with autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders—with CARD"s research and development manager Adel Najdowski.
Jonathan Tarbox, the director of research. And Dennis Dixon, director of analytics.
Granpeesheh was born in Tehran, Iran and went to school in England and Switzerland. Her father served as an advisor to the Minister of Finance in Tehran.
When she was 16 years old in 1979, Granpeesheh attended the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles) where she met her college professor Ivar Lovaas, who was pioneering an early intervention to teach children with autism called Discrete trial teaching (DTT), an intensive and structured modality derived from the science of Applied behavior analysis (American Bar Association).
In addition, Granpeesheh, who later became Lovaas" senior supervisor at his clinic, took part in his famous study in 1987 which documented how 9 of 19 children with autism who obtained early, intensive American Bar Association therapy acquired typical academic and language skills and were placed in regular classrooms. A follow-up study in 1993 tracked these children as adolescents with 8 of the 9 best outcome children displaying "adaptive and social skills within the normal range" and were indistinguishable from other typically developing children their age. In 1999, the United States Surgeon General praised the study and remarked that three decades of research has shown early, intensive American Bar Association interventions to be highly effective for treating youngsters with ASD.
