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The Bloomfield Dyslexia Centre has been helping children with Specific Learning Difficulties since 1958
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The Bloomfield's Origins
The Centre was founded in 1958 by Instone Bloomfield to help children with developmental, emotional and learning difficulties.
It originally consisted of a multi-disciplinary team, housed in the purpose-built Bloomfield Clinic of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, at Guy’s Hospital. At that time, it was acknowledged that children with emotional and behavioural issues often suffered from underlying literacy difficulties, which led to lack of self-esteem and other mental health disorders. The team of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, art therapists, social workers and dyslexia teachers, provided integrated programmes of treatment with great success.
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Becoming a charity
Following a series of policy changes, affecting health and education throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, local authority funding for the Dyslexia Centre was withdrawn, putting its future at risk. However, thanks to the support of John Bloomfield and Guy’s Trust, the Centre defied the odds and kept its doors open to vulnerable children who had nowhere else to go for specialist literacy teaching. The Bloomfield Dyslexia Centre acquired charitable status in 1993. To this day, the Centre is still supported by the Bloomfield family and is run by a committed, enthusiastic team of teachers.