What Does the Brigance Test Measure

The Brigance Inventory measures progress in areas of perambulatory, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, pre-speech, speech and language, general knowledge, readiness, basic reading, manuscript writing, and basic math skills.

What is the Brigance used for?

The BRIGANCE Early Childhood Screens III is a short screening tool that can be used to identify students for delays and giftedness. The assessment is offered for three age ranges: 0-35 months, 3-5 years, and K and 1st grade. The tool can be administered in less than 15 minutes per child, in both English and Spanish.

Is the Brigance reliable?

Specificity ranged from 85% to 86% and sensitivity ranged from 76% to 77%. Accordingly, the Brigance Infant and Toddler Screens are shown to be accurate, valid, and reliable tools that can be administered by a range of professionals using either parent interview or direct elicitation/observation or both.