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Marion Blank, PH.D.
Lecturer in Psychiatry
Co-director of the Developmental Neuropsychiatry Program ,
Columbia University
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Dr. Blank is a developmental psychologist with a specialization in language (both spoken and written) and learning. She has developed literacy programs for children with learning disabilities including children with ASD (autistic spectrum disorder), who do not speak.
In addition to producing various books, articles, tests and software programs, she also maintains a private practice and serves as a consultant to a wide range of school districts in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
In 1994 and 1995, she was selected as the New Jersey nominee for the Frank R. Kleffner Clinical Career Award of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. In 1990, she developed a software reading program, Sentence Master, which received the Special Education Software Award of 1990 from the Software Publishers Association. In 2006, she launched the Phonics Plus Five reading program which is available at phonicsplusfive.com.
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Undergraduate: City College of New York, B. A., 1955
Graduate: Cambridge University, Ph.D., 1961
Medical School: Columbia University, MPH, 1989
Doctoral Degree: City College of New York, M.S. in Ed., 1956
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• Neuropsychiatry/cognitive disorders
• Child psychiatry
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Address:
NYS Psychiatric Institute
Room Eye Room 635 Unit/Box:
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212 305 4663
Fax: 212 342-1463
BlankM@childpsych.Columbia.edu
Personal Homepage
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| My research interests are focused on defining and ameliorating language problems in children.
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1. Blank M: The Reading Remedy, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2006
1. Blank M: Classroom Discourse: A Key to Literacy in (Eds. K. Butler & E. Silliman. Speaking, Reading and Writing in Children with Language Learning Disabilities, Erlbaum , Mahwah, NJ, 2002
1. Blank M, Marquis MA, Klimovitch M : Directing Early Discourse, Communication Skill Builders, Tucson, AZ, 1995
1. Blank M, Marquis MA, Klimovitch M : Directing Early Discourse, Communication Skill Builders, Tucson, AZ, 1994
1. Blank M, Berlin LJ: A Parents Guide to Educational Software , Microsoft, Redmond, WA, 1991
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FACULTY ONLY
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