Nordic Network on Self-Regulation

The network aims to spread and develop knowledge about self-regulation by arranging courses and professional days, and by members of the network assisting local networks where there is a need to strengthen knowledge about self-regulation and related strategies.

By working case-based and using video and other tools, we can develop more competence and understanding of concrete action thinking in relation to physiological regulation, and pain, affect, and emotion regulation. It is also of great importance that we collaborate with the other Nordic networks focusing on Cognition, Tactile Language, Communicative Relations, and CHARGE.

The Nordic Network for Self-Regulation aims to increase and spread knowledge about how professionals, caregivers, and relatives can support people with congenital deafblindness in creating balance and managing emotions. Increasing focus is being placed on understanding challenging behaviour in people with congenital deafblindness from a self-regulation and communication perspective.

Approaches and methods used by the network:

• Use of the assessment form for self-regulation functions (KSF) as a basis for special educational and environmental therapy work
• Identifying sub-processes in self-regulation through case examples. We look at interpretations and action thinking, especially in relation to environmental therapy approaches
• Understanding complex conditions such as pain, depression, and psychosis in people with congenital deafblindness from a self-regulation perspective
• Pharmacological treatment from a self-regulation perspective
• Connection between self-regulation interventions and other related interventions such as the low-arousal approach.
• How different subject perspectives, such as neuropsychological or neuro-pedagogical, can help in understanding self-regulation challenges, as well as develop good interventions and adaptations.
• Understanding how tactile-body co-regulated adaptation can contribute to a greater degree of self-regulation

If you are interested in finding more about the network or want to become a member, please send a message to our contact person Anette Moen, Signo Competence Centre, Norway

The Nordic Network for Self-Regulation was approved as a Nordic Network by the Nordic Leadership Forum in 2020. Prior to that, the network functioned as a working group with the ambition to look more closely at challenging and difficult behaviour in people with deafblindness caused by the Rubella virus (Congenital Rubella Syndrome).

The expansion of the target group to include people with congenital combined vision and hearing loss, or deafblindness, developed naturally.