Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disorder that gradually weakens the body's muscles. It's caused by incorrect or missing genetic information that prevents the body from making the proteins it needs to build and maintain healthy muscles (Clark, 2005). A child's learning abilities would be affected physically but not the mental learning. It will be hard for the sick child to accept that he have this kind of sickness, proper care should be given so that his learning ability would not be affected. The brain is not affected with the weakening of the muscles in the body. Sometimes, a child with muscular dystrophy seems to lose hope and this is the reason why his learning ability fails. But through inspirations, strong determination and a little help from others he love will help him a lot in combating this kind of sickness. As McGriff (1998) said in her statement:.

             "When a child is seriously, chronically ill, the ideal family model is much more difficult to achieve, but doubly important to strive for. Your efforts to prolong your child's independence by forgoing your understandable impulse to overprotect -- as well as by emphasizing self-help aids -- will have many beneficial effects, not the least of which is to lessen the possibility of future emotional and learning problems. If your child is already doing chores, these responsibilities should continue. He or she should be disciplined as are the other children in the family and also receive normal rewards for achievement.".

             How families deal with a child that has muscular dystrophy? .

             Within a family, if one child have this kind of disease it is hard to accept the truth especially the mother because she tends to blame herself. But acceptance to the truth should be considered because this will help a lot with the sick person. A person who was diagnosed to have this kind of sickness tends to isolate himself to other people because he knew that he will never be cured.