[citation needed] Blank served on the faculty of the Department of Child Psychiatry at Columbia University where she created the A Light on Literacy program.
She also devotes considerable time and energy to producing books, articles, software programs and tests (including the widely used Preschool Language Assessment Instrument, a test published in both in English and Spanish, that is designed to assess the verbal communication skills of children in the preschool years).
From 1973 to 1983, Blank was a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers Medical School (a component institution of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey).
She recently received the Upton Sinclair Award, which honors individuals who have made a significant contribution to education while displaying great courage in the process.
She was the 1994 and 1995 New Jersey nominee for the Frank R. Kleffner Clinical Career Award of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.