She just cannot wrap her brain around it. She also has difficulty when someone tells her to move to the left or right, so I'm not entirely surprised.
Does it help to imagine a magical land where the king's just loves the number 34, and now all of his frustrated subjects must refer to everything in relation to this favorite number, such as:
I have 34 plus 12 sheep.
I have 34 minus 30 children.
I am getting married in 34 plus 100 days.
In a way, Zero is sort of arbitrary, and we all may as well be using 34.
I also wonder how she is with sense of time. I sort of think of my body as a number line, with zero near my left ear, and the positive numbers streaming foward into the future, and the negative numbers streaming back in time. I learned in a ASL class that the sign for the past was to push air behind the left ear, and made the connection. So in this scheme, today is Zero, tomorrow is One, and yesterday is Negative one. Of course, I'm terrible with time, so this wouldn't help me at all!
Smiles,
Grinity
