This study aims to evaluate the results of subtests in growth and development of children living in houses of love and to identify possible remedial measures for improved adaptation to the society in the future. The study group consisted of a total of 38 students attending primary and secondary schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Trabzon city center (n:19) and residing in social services (n:19), selected by simple random method. Firstly, a form consisting of questions related to the determination of demographic characteristics and then a hand function test including a series of subtests which are used to evaluate hand functions in daily life were implemented. Before the selection of the tests to be performed on the data obtained in the study, the Shapiro-Wilk normality test was conducted to check whether the error terms were normally distributed (P>0.05). For the scores obtained from the scale, the Independent samples t-test was utilized for pairwise comparisons, and the One-Way ANOVA and the Tukey HSD test were utilized for multiple comparisons. As a result, it was concluded that fine motor functions differed in boys and girls in this study and this difference was favorable for girls. It was also concluded that fine motor skills became strengthened with advancing age and that participants living with their families had higher fine motor skill scores. The idea that children living in houses of love may have professional difficulties in their independent lives in the future due to their inadequacies in hand skills has emerged.

Psychomotor, orphan children, small muscle development