Doreen Granpeesheh

Who is Doreen Granpeesheh?

Doreen Granpeesheh, PhD, BCBA-D 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 fully recover from autism. She obtained her psychology degree from the California Board of Psychology. Moreover, Granpeesheh is the founder and president of ACT Today!, which provides financial support to families who are unable to pay for validated treatment.

Granpeesheh works worldwide with families of children on the autism spectrum, many of whom have "fully recovered" and are currently neurotypical children. In 1990, she founded and is chief executive officer of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, a clinic that implements early, intensive Applied Behavior Analysis therapy. In 2010, she completed a study which found that 6 out of 14 severely autistic children who obtained treatment by CARD "had fully recovered".