Lua
McIlraith S.R.N. M.I.R.I
Lua trained as a nurse at St Vincent’s Hospital Dublin.
She subsequently worked in London at Guy’s Hospital
and the Harley Street Clinic. She then went to work in Boston
at the "Robert Breck Brigham Hospital" which was
the Harvard University centre for Arthritis Research. She
has lived in the Philippines and Ethiopia where she was heavily
involved in the provision of health advice on a voluntary
basis to the Diplomatic community and also worked for the
American Embassy in South America as a nurse practitioner.
She was drawn to Reflexology having personally experienced
it’s benefits, and decided to transfer from orthodox
medicine to Complementary Medicine believing that in the not
too distant future both types will be compatible. She graduated
from the Beaumont Institute of Complementary Therapies in
1995.
She has done numerous Reflexology Post
graduate courses including Advanced Techniques, Vertical Reflexology
Therapy, Reproductive and Maternity Reflexology and care of
clients undergoing treatment for cancer.
From 1999 to 2002 she was Chairperson of
the "Irish Reflexologists’ Institute" an as
current Vice-chairperson is still very involved in the ongoing
talks with the Department of Health and Children regarding
Statutory Regulation of Reflexologists. This proposed legislation
will be designed to ensure that Reflexologists are trained
to the highest possible standards and that those standards
are maintained by ongoing education.
Having come from a teaching family (both
parents, both grandmothers, and assorted aunts and cousins)
she has always been interested in education and in recent
years the whole concept of Adult Education. With the advent
of long distance learning it seemed the right time to get
involved in what is now being called " blended learning"
a combination of regular classes and long distance /online
learning.
"After earning my doctoral degree in
special education (expected graduation May, 2003), I plan
to serve as a professor of special education while at the
same time continuing my research into the best practices in
educational interventions for children with autism. It is
important for me to continue working with and researching
into intervention practices so that I can tie what goes on
in the real world of working with these children to my teaching.
Ideally, I will have a lab school within the college or university
I teach in to conduct this research."
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