Co-Regulation through Affective Signalling

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I am absolutely thrilled to have returning guest, Educator Kasheena Holder back, who is a DIR-Expert and Training Leader with the International Council on Development and Learning and owner and director of Legacy, an inclusive school in Barbados where about 60 percent of her students are neurodivergent and about 40 percent are neurotypical. I would like to consider this episode a part two to three difference past episodes. 

First is my previous podcast with Kasheena called Creating Opportunities for Co-Regulatory Support, the second being the last episode on Gestural Development, and the third being the episode about Gestalt Language Processing because these topics are all so intertwined, and there’s so much buzz around Gestalt Language Processing. We want to distill it down for the DIR folks.

Co-Regulation through Affective Signalling

by Affect Autism

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Reviewing Co-Regulation

I began this episode with a quick review of my first podcast with Kasheena in 2022 about Creating Opportunities for Co-Regulatory Support. Kasheena made many subpoints in that podcast as well, but this is basically what Brookes was talking about, too, last episode with the gestural communication.

Co-regulation is the process of connecting to our child’s emotional state and supporting our child to feel heard and understood so they feel safe in their emotional experience and can be calmed through our connection.

What I liked in our first podcast was the focus Kasheena put on us, just like Dr. Stuart Shanker talks about in self-reg, and just like when we do the sensory processing profile on ourselves first. She talked about checking in with ourselves with how we’re feeling in the moment and accepting that it’s ok because that allows us to activate our co-regulatory capacities.

Our parents weren’t really nurtured in that way, and their parents were going through world wars, I pointed out. But being in that space is what Greenspan focused his whole theory on: his affect diathesis–avoiding those catastrpoic emotional reactions by co-regulating off of our caregivers through