Intensive Holiday Courses
Please mark √ or X:
- Your child has lost hope in being able to read fluently

- He/she suffers from low self-esteem due to learning failure and/or poor school achievement

- There is a possibility that he/she may fail his/her school year

- You stay too far from an Edublox clinic to regularly cart your child to the classes
If you answered “yes” to any of the above, our intensive holiday courses might be the answer for you!
No ‘quick-fix’ but…
While there is no ‘quick-fix’ for learning failure and learning difficulties, our intensive holiday courses have proved to accelerate results and will help your child take a giant leap forward!
Results Intensive Holiday Courses:
The intention of our intensive holiday courses is first and foremost to improve cognitive abilities attention, visual and auditory processing, memory, et cetera. We use our cognitive abilities to acquire knowledge; they can be considered our tools for learning.
Increase in IQ
While an IQ score is certainly not the sum of a person’s cognitive abilities, it is one criterion that can be used to compare a person’s cognitive ability to that of the general population.
Ten youngsters with severe learning difficulties were tested on the South African Intelligence Scale before starting a two-week intensive course, and again after receiving 40 hours of one-on-one instruction. Their ages were between 7 and 18.
The increases in verbal, non-verbal and full scale IQ were highly significant according to the two-tailed t-test.
| | Before | After | |
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| Verbal IQ Subtests | | | |
| Vocabulary | 7.6 | 7.9 | |
| Comprehension | 10.0 | 10.8 | |
| Verbal Reasoning | 9.1 | 10.0 | |
| Problems | 6.3 | 6.8 | |
| Memory | 8.5 | 10.5 | |
| Mean Verbal IQ | 85.4 | 91.0 | Increase significant at the 0.001 level |
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| Non-Verbal IQ Subtests | | | |
| Pattern Completion | 8.4 | 8.7 | |
| Block Design | 8.2 | 10.3 | |
| Absurdities | 9.4 | 9.6 | |
| Form Board | 11.1 | 15.3 | |
| Mean Non-Verbal IQ | 92.6 | 105.1 | Increase significant at the 0.001 level |
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| MEAN FULL SCALE IQ | 87.0 | 97.1 | Increase significant at the 0.001 level |
An M.Ed. study by Wynand de Wet has shown that our program increases IQ scores significantly in less than 30 hours and when used in a group. He applied our program to a group of deaf children; their average non-verbal IQ increased by 11.6 points in 27.5 hours of tuition, done over a period of time.
In short, 30 to 40 hours of tuition is generally sufficient to place a learner in a higher cognitive level low average moves up to average, average to high average, et cetera.
Improved reading skills
As research has shown, enhanced cognitive abilities lead to improved reading, spelling and learning skills. Many reading programs offer to improve reading skills, but only those grounded in cognitive assessment and training achieve the established, long-term results.
Below is the pre- and post ophthalmograph results of one Grade 4 learner who attended a two-week intensive course. Her relative reading efficiency level increased by two and a half years! While not all learners will gain as much, even a one-year gain in reading can change a child’s life.
After the intensive course, the learner will ideally continue with the weekly Edublox classes or continue with one of the Edublox home programs.
Course and Contact Details:
Ballito:
Date and Time: 25 - 29 June, and 2 - 6 July 2012, every day from 08h00-13h00 (40 hours of tuition).
Language: English
Cost: R3000-00
Contact: Yolande Scholtz at (032) 586-3411 or 072-125-0606.
Bloemfontein:
Date and Time: 25 - 29 June, and 2 - 6 July 2012, every day from 08h00-13h00 (40 hours of tuition).
Language: Afrikaans
Cost: R3000-00
Contact: Annelize Lategan at (051) 430-7492 or 083-429-4156.
Cape Town, Claremont:
Date and Time: 25 - 29 June, and 2 - 6 July 2012, every day from 08h00-13h00 (40 hours of tuition).
Language: English
Cost: R3000-00
Contact: Zainu Allie at (021) 671-2409 or 083-786-8383.
Centurion, Doringkloof:
Date and Time: 25 - 29 June, and 2 - 6 July 2012, every day from 08h00-13h00 (40 hours of tuition).
Language: Afrikaans
Cost: R3000-00
Contact: Louise Huisamen at (012) 667-2252 or 083-230-7230.
Centurion, Wierda Park:
Date and Time: 25 - 29 June, and 2 - 6 July 2012, every day from 08h00-13h00 (40 hours of tuition).
Language: English
Cost: R3000-00
Contact: Corine Howell at (012) 653-5599 or 083-230-7968.
Durban, Upper Highway:
Date and Time: 25 - 29 June, and 2 - 6 July 2012, every day from 08h00-13h00 (40 hours of tuition).
Language: English
Cost: R3000-00
Contact: Marj Arslanian at (031) 764-3226 or 084-799-5807.
Johannesburg, West Rand:
Date and Time: 25 - 29 June, and 2 - 6 July 2012, every day from 08h00-13h00 (40 hours of tuition).
Language: Afrikaans
Cost: R3000-00
Contact: Monique van Heerden at (011) 764-5824 or 082-531-7200.
Kempton Park:
Date and Time: 25 - 29 June, and 2 - 6 July 2012, every day from 08h00-13h00 (40 hours of tuition).
Language: English
Cost: R3000-00
Contact: Alison Bourbier at (011) 391-3215 or 082-303-2299.
Polokwane:
Date and Time: 25 - 29 June, and 2 - 6 July 2012, every day from 08h00-13h00 (40 hours of tuition).
Language: Afrikaans
Cost: R3000-00
Contact: Lizani Muller at (015) 291-4099 or 082-303-2299.
Pretoria East:
Date and Time: 25 - 29 June, and 2 - 6 July 2012, every day from 08h00-13h00 (40 hours of tuition).
Language: Afrikaans
Cost: R3000-00
Contact: Susan du Plessis at (012) 345-1480 or 083-390-7964.
Vaal Triangle, Vereeniging:
Date and Time: 25 - 29 June, and 2 - 6 July 2012, every day from 08h00-13h00 (40 hours of tuition).
Language: Afrikaans
Cost: R3000-00
Contact: Marietha Mare at (016) 423-7215 or 082-789-5238.
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