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Teacher learns lessons in love from son with rare disability

03:27

In the latest installment of his award-winning American Story franchise, NBC correspondent Bob Dotson profiles Jeff Wright, a high school teacher in Louisville, Kentucky, who shares the lessons in love he has learned from his son, Adam, who has Joubert syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes him to harm himself.