Since it's founding, APTE has created numerous award-winning and innovative education programs for both children and adults. The APTE development team has taken advantage of the enormous changes and improvements in technology to build continually better products. One thing that never changes is APTE's commitment to providing children with superior learning materials.

APTE's guiding principle is the belief that higher thinking skills are built on a solid foundation of visual learning. Before a child can speak, read or think, she looks and recognizes. Visual learning is the most basic building block in the development of cognition. Based on research that demonstrates most people are predominantly visual learners, APTE programs help children learn to read and write using digital imagery (photography and video) as well as traditional printed methods.