brigance inventory of early development ii brigance inventory of early development ii the brigance inventory of early development ii (ied-ii) is a child development assessment. it is designed to provide information on how a child is performing in 5 key norm-referenced/standardized developmental areas: language domain (receptive and expressive) motor domain (gross motor and fine motor skills) academic-cognitive (general/quantitative and pre-reading skills) daily living domain (self-help and prevocational) social-emotional domain (play skills and behavior and engagement/initiation skills) test the inventory provides information in 11 criterion-referenced, skill-based developmental areas: perambulatory motor skills and behaviors gross-motor skills and behaviors fine-motor skills and behaviors self-help skills speech and language skills general knowledge and comprehension social-emotional development early academic skills sections readiness basic reading skills manuscript writing basic math