I'm sorry why do we care? He just lost his voice. It happens.
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-08/ff_adams?...
Maybe it just speaks to my own ignorance, but I found his whole public discussion (he regularly blogged about it) of his language issue incredibly fascinating: he could speak at public events, but not one on one, he had some success with 'singing' words but he couldn't emit them if spoken, etc.