**Abstract**

The regulation underlies numerous developmental processes during the life cycle and intervenes in sensory processing, attachment, management of the self in relation to the other and the environment, the attunement of the affects, experimentation of interactions, the configuration of relationships, resilience, and intersubjectivity. The regulation typically occurs from the earliest stage of life. The child defines his interactive style mediated by his motor dimension through appropriate processing of stimuli adapting himself to the physical and social environment through the tonic dialogue and he also reaches the ability to manage, control, and attunement of affects and emotional states within complex dynamics in adulthood with more developed cognitive skills through the "tonic dialogue". The construct emerges on a neurobiological and neuroanatomical basis, which describes the individual subject's peculiar way of reacting and relating to the world: the temperament. The relational and reactive style modifies and defines itself in a strictly individual manner based on the subject's life experiences, especially of social nature. The interactive modes, the ruptures, and the repairs that characterise the relationship with the primary caregiver leave an imprinting that the subject retains throughout his life which will define his relational style, as much as it may change according to the interacting part. From the pathological front, regulatory disorders require a global, highly specific rehabilitative treatment which aims at the developmental needs of the child. Neuro and psychomotor therapy of developmental age intervenes in all aspects of regulatory disorders and plays a role that is not only rehabilitative and abilitative but also preventive, as reduces the risk that the disorder may evolve into further clinical conditions, especially of a psychopathological nature.

**Keywords:** regulation, attunement, neuro and psychomotor therapy of developmental age, transversal competencies, regulatory disorders, setting

#### **1. Introduction**

Regulation deficit frequently occurs in comorbidity in clearly nosographic-defined neurodevelopmental disorders. Nevertheless, the difficulty of isolating regulatory disorders in developmental age, and proceeding with exclusive diagnoses of the disorder, often undermines its progressive assessment and its evolution into disorders that continue in the development of the subject under evaluation and treatment. Regulatory disorders are therefore alterations that are present but not always classified as main disorders as much as secondary and they require accurate reading abilities and identification as they invoke concepts such as intricacy, mutability, and transience.
