Our Story & History
Our Founding & Origins
Hopscotch Children's Therapy Centre was founded by Dimitrios Mylonadis in 2002, in London's Harley Street. Hopscotch was born out of a clear and pressing gap in London's paediatric therapy landscape: a lack of genuinely specialist provision for children with neurodevelopmental differences; one that went beyond generic therapy and truly centred the child. From the outset, Dimitrios built the clinic around a philosophy that remains unchanged today: effective therapy must be specialist in its depth, led by the child's own motivations and sensory needs, and grounded in the best available clinical evidence. Central to that founding vision was the decision to place Sensory Integration therapy at the heart of Hopscotch's offer - not as an add-on, but as a unifying clinical framework that would sit alongside Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy, allowing each discipline to inform and enrich the others. It was a model that was then unusual in the UK, and it has defined what Hopscotch is ever since.
Our Growth & Development
Over the years, Hopscotch has grown steadily. Always deliberately, and always in service of the clinic's founding values. The most significant milestone in that journey was the 2025 move to 11 Gower Street, in the heart of Bloomsbury: a purpose-designed clinical space that, for the first time, gave the team the environment to fully realise its therapeutic vision, with specialist sensory integration facilities and the physical infrastructure to support a growing multidisciplinary team under one roof.
That team has expanded meaningfully over time, bringing together Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, and Sensory Integration Specialists, whose collective expertise allows Hopscotch to hold complexity that many clinics cannot. In parallel, Hopscotch has developed a deep and trusted offer within the statutory sector, working alongside local authorities, schools, and EHCP commissioning pathways, to ensure that specialist therapy is accessible to children who need it most, not only those whose families can fund it privately.
Beyond direct clinical work, Dimitrios' international reputation in Sensory Integration has seen Hopscotch become a home for training and education, delivering specialist SI programmes to therapists across the UK and internationally, extending the clinic's influence well beyond its Bloomsbury base.
Hopscotch Today
Today, Hopscotch stands as one of the UK's leading specialist paediatric therapy clinics, with a multidisciplinary team, approaching nine therapists in 2026 - a carefully composed group of Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, and Sensory Integration specialists united by a shared clinical outlook and a genuine depth of expertise. Children and families who come to Hopscotch are wonderfully varied: from toddlers in the earliest stages of assessment, to school-age children navigating complex neurodevelopmental profiles; from privately referred families to those supported through Education, Health and Care Plans and local authority funding.
Our clinic holds a long-standing and trusted relationship with Camden Local Authority - one of a number of commissioning bodies that rely on Hopscotch's specialist offer to meet the needs of children in their care. A relationship built over years of consistent, high-quality clinical work and rigorous statutory reporting.
Within the broader UK Sensory Integration community, Hopscotch occupies a distinctive position: not simply as a clinic that practises SI, but as a centre that champions it - contributing to the evidence base, training the next generation of SI-informed therapists, and helping to raise the standard of neurodevelopmental care across the profession.