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Marion Blank is a developmental psychologist and the creator of the Reading Kingdom program, the creator and former director of the A Light on Literacy program at Columbia University in New York, and most recently the creator of Comprendi, a first-of-its-kind reading system designed specifically to improve reading comprehension. As a developmental psychologist, she has specialized in language and learning.
Blank has developed a model for teaching reading that is based on six critical skills. Two are physical skills: the visual sequencing skills for reading and the fine motor performance for writing, and four are language skills: phonology, semantics, syntax and discourse. This model allows reading to be taught to a wide variety of children, including those for whom reading attainment is highly problematic, such as non-verbal autistic children.[1]
Her books titled The Reading Remedy and Spectacular Bond and her 2010 reading program, Reading Kingdom, are designed to make her system easily available to parents so that they may prevent or overcome the reading failure that afflicts about 40% of the school population across the nation.
- ^ "For Kids with Autism, Learning to Talk Starts with Reading". Columbia Medicine Magazine. 3 May 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2021.