Cross-cultural adaptation of the Battelle Development Inventory, 2nd Edition for Brazil

Abstract The Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition is a standardized inventory for evaluating the child development from birthto seven years, 11 months old. objective of this article to describe process cross-cultural adaptation Protocolto Portuguese-Brazil. This methodological study was conducted in three steps: 1) Pre-condition; 2) Test development; and 3) Evaluation content validity. Adjustments were performed formulation some items, as well stimuli structured application Brazilian version Edition. Compared original version, showed good semantic, idiomatic, experiential, conceptual, operational equivalences, excellent validity indexes. adapted Brazil can be considered aviableinstrument usewith infant population.