The lab focuses on understanding the mechanisms of skill acquisition, consolidation, and transfer—especially graphomotor skills like handwriting, drawing, and building—and how these processes unfold across different developmental stages and populations. A central theme in her work is the role of practice in shaping children's learning trajectories. The lab has explored how children with developmental disabilities, such as dysgraphia, dyslexia, ADHD, developmental coordination disorder (DCD), and developmental language disorder (DLD), acquire and retain motor-based skills.

Leading projects have examined developmental differences in skill learning, revealing an advantage for adults in the initial phase of skill acquisition and for young children in the time needed to consolidate a skill and consequently in susceptibility to interference.

Recent publications include:

Hollander, C., Dorfberger, S., Hochhauser, M., & Adi-Japha, E. (2025). Skill learning as a predictor of literacy abilities and related impairments among second-graders from low-SES. Learning and Individual Differences, 123, 102779.‏    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102779

Altman, C., Shaya, N., Berke, R., & Adi‐Japha, E. (2025). Challenges in skill acquisition and memory retention in children with developmental language disorder. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 60(3), e70024.‏ https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.70024

DeVeney, S. L., Dotan, S., Weberman, I., Julius, M. S., & Adi-Japha, E. (2024). Dynamics of Motor Skill Learning in American and Israeli Toddlers with Varied Language Proficiency. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-16.‏ https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-24-00142

Ghanamah, R., Eghbaria-Ghanamah, H., & Adi-Japha, E. (2024). The differential association of COVID-19 remote digital instruction period with second-grade students' graphomotor, handwriting, visual, and sequential memory skills. Learning and Instruction 91, 101898. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.101898

Adi-Japha, E & Brestel G. (2020). Motor skill learning with impaired transfer by children with
developmental coordination disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 103, 103671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2020.103671