I think I remember seeing somewhere that it was a situation gone wrong. That he did something, and it just went haywire. I think the family has kept mum about the subject. I don't blame them I suppose.
I realize that I'm commenting on an old thread, but I wanted to provide a link for watching "For A Deaf Son" free of charge.
I work for the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) and we were given permission from KERA to publish the video, in its entirety, to our YouTube channel. We have distributed the documentary to our registered users for years, but were given permission to post on YouTube a few weeks ago.
I'm sorry about that! When we upload to YouTube the default status is "Private", I didn't notice it for some reason. I marked it as public, it should work fine now. Thanks!