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Dr Sarah Hall

Honorary Research Associate

Sarah Hall

Honorary Research Associate

Dr Sarah Hall is a clinician-researcher with concurrent appointments as Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist (Kids Rehab WA), Research Fellow (Curtin University), and Honorary Research Associate (The Kids).

Sarah completed her postgraduate clinical training at the University of Melbourne in 2014, and has since worked clinically with children and adults with a range of neurological, psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders across public health, mental health and private practice settings. Sarah has a particular research interest in the early factors that shape cognitive and socio-emotional development in children.

She is a Research Fellow on the Early Moves project, a large prospective cohort study that aims to investigate the utility of the General Movements Assessment in infancy as an early marker of cognitive impairment. In this role, Sarah is overseeing the assessment of 1,500 two-year-old children using the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development.

Sarah is passionate about clinical research that delivers real-world impact for children and families, through translation of evidence into clinical policy and practice. She has led several quality improvement projects to improve the hospital experience for children and adults with autism, and implement standardised screening of mood disorders following stroke. She is a Board Approved Supervisor in Clinical Neuropsychology and HDR supervisor, and is available to supervise Honours, Masters and PhD students.  

Projects

CONNECT-CP (A Clinical Research Program to Improve Connection, Access and Translation of Evidence in Cerebral Palsy)

CONNECT-CP aims to diagnose cerebral palsy (CP) earlier and ensure all children in Western Australia (WA) have access to early assessment and support.

Learn more about CONNECT-CP (A Clinical Research Program to Improve Connection, Access and Translation of Evidence in Cerebral Palsy)

July 2025

Early Moves

The Early Moves study is investigating whether a baby’s early movements can predict difficulties with learning (known as cognitive impairment) later in childhood.

Learn more about Early Moves

August 2020

Published research

Implementation Fidelity of a Smartphone Application for Population-Based General Movement Assessment: The Early Moves Study

To describe the infant and maternal characteristics of the Early Moves cohort and to assess representativeness to the general population, and to evaluate the implementation fidelity of an application-based collection of General Movement Assessment (GMA) videos at writhing and fidgety age.

Published research Early Childhood Development ORIGINS Kids Rehab Research WA
Learn more about Implementation Fidelity of a Smartphone Application for Population-Based General Movement Assessment: The Early Moves Study

August 2025