Eleanor has a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning for Third Level from UCC. She teaches and lectures for a number of colleges: Limerick Writers Centre, Limerick College of Further Education, Hibernia College Dublin and University College Cork. She gives lectures on UCC’s Diploma for Autism Studies, Diploma for Disability Studies and supervises student’s final dissertations on the Professional Masters in Education, specialising in Autism and Special Education with Hibernia Education College Dublin. Her other areas of speciality are: the law and autism, representation of autism in the media, and mental health. Eleanor co-founded the Special Needs Parents Association of Ireland with other parents in 2010. She has worked with and represented other disability groups both nationally/locally in the media. She has given many talks to and for these groups and also spoken at protest marches for disability rights.
