We count the pegs when we hang the washing (also colours but thats a different thread)
I ask her how many and she says 2 then I ask her to count them...1....2. When she started she had no idea so I would count them out first.
Echoing your counting is the first step..thats how kids learn to talk to hon. Make her feel important and ask her. It may take a while but hey....its learning
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My dd is 21 months almost and she actually counts objects. Quite cute. The thing that really helped was getting her 'flash card' type things. I got them from Learning ladder and they go from 1-10 with pictures on them. And then there is a card with all the objects on there from 1-10 and you get them to pick out the flash card that is the number 5 for example. Made the world of difference and now she can look at a bunch of things and count them.
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I think the best thing at that age is to help them learn the names of the numbers and and start to introduce them to the meaning of numbers using small numbers (like asking if the toddler wants one or two crackers and showing them what one looks like, and then showing them what two looks like).
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