SOS children’s villages take care of orphaned or
abandoned children who are likely to suffer from multiple
psychosocial problems. Nevertheless, much is not known
about the developmental, social-emotional, nutritional and
resilience status of young SOS children (SOSc) living in
poor settings of developing countries such as Ethiopia. The
present study examined the developmental, social-emo-
tional, nutritional and resilience status of SOSc in Jimma
town of Ethiopia. In total, we selected 62 children
(3.5–71.8 months of age; 32 boys and 30 girls) and tested
for their personal-social, language, fine and gross motor
development with the culturally adapted and standardized
developmental screening tool, Denver II-Jimma; and their
social-emotional behavior with the ages and stages ques-
tionnaire: social-emotional (ASQ:SE). We compared their
outcomes to 62 age- and sex- matched family-reared

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• Development, Social-Emotional Behavior and Resilience of Orphaned Children in a Family-Oriented Setting