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[quote=Anonymous]In a sense, yes, she is. Mostly, though, she's not.

A lot of kids know these things by 24 months, maybe not with 100% consistency, but can answer correctly most of the time. They either figure it out on their own or are taught---usually a mixture of the two (child starts to show signs of recognition and so parent encourages/teaches). But it doesn't become a "milestone" until later, and even then, she doesn't really need to know them until kindergarten.

I wouldn't worry about it. When she starts to show an interest, you can read to her books about colors or numbers (there are a lot of fun ones), sing songs and play with puzzles and other things that encourage learning these things as the others suggested. Until then, it really doesn't matter. It's not like other milestones where doing it late might indicate a bigger problem or is easier to resolve with earlier intervention.

As long as she seems otherwise NT, she can be taught these things before kindergarten with just as much (if not more) ease.[/quote]

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