[Medical and Educational Challenges in the Care of Children with Disabilities]

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) serves as a useful tool to describe the numerous challenges that pediatricians face when dealing with disabled children. In this review article, we will first discuss the issues of diagnosis announcement and communication modalities. In a second part, we will expose the challenges posed by newly available therapies for rare disorders, and innovative technologies in the field of disability, which are at the crossroads of medicine, engineering and education. Finally, we will address the question of schooling of disabled children and advocate for a close and early cooperation between health care professionals and educational stakeholders.