La posture de l'entre-deux des professionnels des secteurs médico-social et sanitaire et la coordination des parcours des jeunes en situation de handicap

In France, social and medico-social workers were impelled by the 2002 law to reconsider their work relationships with the parents of children with disabilities, as parents are now the core decision-makers in the disabled child's educational project. This paper aims to shed new light on the evolution of the professionals' attitudes and roles as they were compelled to cooperate to a greater or lesser extent in the different stages of children's lives. This research aims to redefine the concept of 'go-between' position as it studies the medico-social coordination of the different kinds of support given to disabled children (0-6 years) and the follow-up of their academic and medical life trajectories. Two short videos were shot and screened during 7 table-round discussions to collect the opinions of 67 educational, health and social workers on the coordination of life trajectories. Our results focus on the main effects of the coconstruction: finding the right in-between position and attitude by paying attention to the sensitive points that can hinder the confluence, paying particular attention to thresholds and ways to crossing them, paying attention to how expectations in terms of reasoned involvement are expressed so as to work in an intermediary position without being intrusive and establish a relation of mutual trust.