Brigance Inventory of Early Development (IED ii)

The Brigance Inventory of Early Development ii (IED-ii) is designed to provide information on how a child is performing in 5 key norm-referenced/standardized developmental areas:

1. Language Domain (receptive and expressive)
2. Motor Domain (gross motor and fine motor skills)
3. Academic-Cognitive (general/quantitative and pre-reading skills)
4. Daily Living Domain (self-help and prevocational)
5. Social-Emotional Domain (play skills and behavior and engagement/initiation skills)

The IED-ii also provides information in 11 key criterion-referenced skill based developmental areas: Developmental Sections with Comprehensive Skills Sequences

1. Perambulatory Motor Skills and Behaviors
2. Gross-Motor Skills and Behaviors
3. Fine-Motor Skills and Behaviors
4. Self-help Skills
5. Speech and Language Skills
6. General Knowledge and Comprehension
7. Social-Emotional Development
8. Early Academic Skills Sections
9. Readiness
10. Basic Reading Skills
11. Manuscript Writing
12. Basic Math

Ages: Birth to Age 7 Purpose: norm and criterion-referenced measure designed to identify strengths and weaknesses of the child and can be used for:

• diagnostic as well as classroom assessment (using normed and standardized scores)
• progress monitoring
• program evaluation

Accessibility: available in English Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation: easy to administer, and the criterion referenced aspect of the test does not require complex scoring procedures. Length and Structure: takes 20–55 minutes to complete depending on the age of the child Developed by: Albert H. Brigance