Doreen Granpeesheh

Doreen Granpeesheh (, born in 1963) is an Iranian-American psychologist and board certified behavior analyst who works with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

In 1990, Granpeesheh founded the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD).

Granpeesheh co-created Skills—an online assessment and ABA treatment guide for children with ASD and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Early childhood and education
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. As the Islamic Revolution started to emerge, her parents decided to send her to Los Angeles, California in the United States to complete high school at the age of 15.

When she was 16 years old in 1979, Granpeesheh attended the University of California, Los Angeles where she was among the graduate students of Ivar Lovaas', Ph.D., a psychology professor who was conducting pioneering research on discrete trial training, an intensive early intervention modality derived from the science of applied behavior analysis to teach autistic children. By the 1980s, Granpeesheh became Lovaas's senior supervisor at his clinic.

In 2014, Granpeesheh published Evidence-Based Treatment for Children with Autism: The CARD Model with co-editors Jonathan Tarbox, Ph.D., B.C.B.A.-D., Adel Najdowski, Ph.D., B.C.B.A.-D., and Julie Kornack.