Universally recognized by the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll", the birth name for the famous children's book author is "Charles Ludwidge Dodgson". He is best known as the author of "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking Glass" (1872), children's books that are among the most popular of all time. He invented the pen name "Lewis Carroll" by translating his first two names "Charles Lutwidge" into Latin as "Carolus Lodovicus", then anglicizing and reversing their order.
The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The Dodo is a caricature of the author. A popular but unsubstantiated belief is that Dodgson chose the particular animal to represent himself because of his stammer, and thus would accidentally introduce himself as "Do-do-dodgson".
Jack Demick, father of the film's Writer, Director and Producer Daniel Michael, is a Graduate Professor at Harvard University and a clinical and developmental psychologist. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, has co-edited eight major volumes, and is the editor of the Journal of Adult Development. His representative research interests include cognitive (e.g., cognitive style development) and social (e.g., adaptation of infants, children, and parents to adoption) development across the life span.
Prior to writing the script, Daniel Michael dedicated six-months toward the comprehensive research of scientific histories, societal stigmas, and individual impacts that surround both speech and mental health disorders. To better his understanding of fluency ailments, Daniel frequently attended and observed weekly speech therapy sessions in the greater New York City area. Additionally, several portions of dialogue which make it into the final draft of the script are stripped from real-life therapy sessions.
Historically, the Dodo was a non-flying bird that lived on the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. It became extinct in the mid 17th century.