Reading, Learning, Behavior and Attention Specialists offering classroom and home management strategies for school success. As a New Jersey State Certified Independent Child Study Team we offer comprehensive services to help students develop their strengths and receive the support they need to feel successful in school. Please take a minute and browse our web site.
Blazer is skilled in the design, implementation, and monitoring of various individualized plans to help parents help their children to reach their potential and to feel successful in school.
With twenty plus years experience as a Reading/Language Arts/Learning Specialist, Dr. Blazer is experienced as a researcher, supervisor of testing, teacher, and civic leader. She is a member of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors and the International Dyslexia Society. She served ten years on the NJ Chadd (Children/Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders) Professional Advisory Board. Dr Blazer has also presented over 100 teacher/parent workshops in New Jersey. She writes extensively on providing supports at home and school for behavior/instructional management of children with attention and learning differences.
Education
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill): Post Doctoral Training
"Variations and Deviations of Learning: Ages 9-18." Directed by Melvin
Levine, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania: Post-Doctoral Course Work
A Systems Approach to Family Therapy, Marriage Council of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) • Honors
Specialization: Language in Education; Reading/Writing/Language Arts
Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic- Family Therapy Training Center
Children's Hospital (Philadelphia, PA)
Post-Masters Course Work: Structural Family Therapy
University of Pennsylvania: Master of Sciences (M.S.) • summa cum laude Specialization: Psychology of Reading
Brooklyn College: Bachelor of Arts (BA) • Dean's List/ cum laude Specialization: English and Education
Publications
Blazer, Bocolini, Butts & Ager (2008) “A-Z Guide for Living Well While Caregiving”, Samaritan Hospice
Blazer, B. (2007) “A-Z At Home for Kids with ADHD”
Shire Pharmaceuticals
Blazer, B. (2007) “ How do I Feel...About Learning? ”
UCB Pharma, Inc
Blazer, B (2005) “A-Z Child’s Guide to Self-Esteem”, UCB Pharma, Inc.
Blazer, B. (2004) “Keys to School Success for Kids with ADHD Grades 4 - 8”
Shire Pharmaceuticals
Blazer, B. (2004) “A Child’s Guide to Concentrating for Kids with ADHD”
Third Edition, Shire Pharmaceuticals
Blazer, B. (2001) “A Child’s Guide to Concentrating for Kids with ADHD”
Second Edition, Shire Pharmaceuticals
Blazer, B. (1999) "Developing 504 Classroom Accommodation Plans." The
Council for Exceptional Children, publication Teaching Exceptional Children,
Volume 32, No. 2, November/December 1999
Blazer, B. (1998). "A Child's Guide to Concentrating for Kids with ADHD"
Shire-Richwood, Inc. Publication
Blazer, B. (1990- present). "Ask the Educational Consultant" and "Ask the Expert" Newspaper columns. Courier Post and Suburban News Group
Blazer, B. (1995). "Theory into Practice; Classroom Adjustments to Support Students with Attention & Learning Weaknesses." Intervention in School & Clinic,
ProEd Publication, Texas, 248
Blazer, B. and Hoffman, J. (1987-1989). "Ask the Educational Consultants" Newspaper column. Suburban News Group
Blazer, B. (1986). "I Want to Talk to You About Writing: 5-Year-Old Children Speak." The Acquisition of Literacy: Ethnographic Perspectives. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishers
Blazer, B. (1984). The Development of Writing in Kindergarten: Speaking and Writing Relationships. Published Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania
A New Jersey State Certified Child Independent Study Team.
