Cognitive: 

• Activities start simple and become more difficult so children can work at their own pace and progress as frustration levels permit.
• Learning with the cards provides practice in pre-literacy skills, such as AB patterning and working from right to left providing easier steps in learning to read.  
• The task on each card is short from start to finish, which helps a child who has attention difficulties finish a task and feel a sense of accomplishment and desire to continue.
• Children practice and enhance fundamental skills, such as sorting and matching, utilizing pretend play and imagination.  As children play, they will be gaining useful information and skills in a fun, inviting way, rather than therapeutic repetition.
• Illustrations on the cards are identical to the objects themselves helping children match exact items. As they progress they are able to generalize matching similar items.  Children who have learning disabilities often have difficulty with abstract tasks. This is very straightforward and concrete.

Communicative: 

• Because the counters are all characters of some sort, children are encouraged to act out elaborate stories using the characters.  Through acting out, children who have communication problems may practice their therapeutic goals in a fun way.
• Children who are afraid to talk out loud themselves can talk as one of the characters. This can assist children in saying what is on their minds and afraid to say. 

• Children can use the connecting people to represent their families or classmates.  Children who are to begin a new routine can use these characters to practice whatever the novel situation is, so when it actually happens, they are prepared and comfortable.

• There are enough characters in the buckets for children to parallel play and begin to incorporate cooperative play, which aids social interaction. 

Physical:

• Characters can be used to practice fine motor skills such as motor planning, pincer grasp and hand control – including releasing an object from a firm grasp.

Sensory: 

• Characters all have very detailed bodies, which aids in tactile differentiation. 

• Cards have very simple illustrations on a wide white background, which aids a child visually. 

• Characters are small in size and are handy for children to carry in their pocket. They can touch these characters to help maintain focus and attention to the teacher.