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" Every new theme park , tourist attraction and travel destination should create inclusion at the outset ."
Dr . Daniela Ferdico
Dr Ferdico , Izzi and Mateo Ferdico in front of ruins in Chichen Itza Pyramids in Mexico after doing a Social Guide
Dr . Daniela Ferdico loves traveling , gets giddy going to the airport and being on a plane . Her experiences through her unique career path and personal experiences of disability have given her the knowledge to create and maintain the nonprofit she cofounded with her daughter Izzi Ferdico , Sensory Access .
Dr . Ferdico grew up in Berlin , Germany and moved to Seattle , Washington at age 11 .
She attended Gonzaga for her undergraduate education in psychology and forensics . She became passionate about the brain / world interaction and obtained her doctorate in neuropsychology .
She has always been fascinated with brain functioning , specifically , the effect that sensory processing of the environment has on our behavior . Dr . Ferdico narrowed this passion in graduate school into helping people understand their strengths and areas of growth in how their brain processes different types of information .
Her first job out of doctorate school was as a neuropsychologist at a large government hospital working with roughly 25 patients a