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Sherry Y. Artemenko M.A., C.C.C.
Speech Language Pathologist

For more than 25 years, Sherry Artemenko has worked with children to improve their speech and language, serving as a speech language pathologist in both the public and private school systems and private practice.

Most recently, Sherry opened Play on Words LLC in 2003, after 16 years with the Fairfield Public Schools. The mission of her practice is two fold: 1) to serve as a therapist to special needs children, ages 1 to 8 years, helping to build their speech and language skills and 2) to assist new moms and dads of typically developing children, ages birth to 3 years, as a personal speech trainer, teaching parents how to talk, read and play with their child to enhance language.

Prior to establishing Play on Words LLC, Sherry’s career as a speech language pathologist spanned 22 years in public and private schools, where she worked with pre-school to high school-aged special needs children. In this capacity, she served on multidisciplinary diagnostic teams at the preschool and elementary levels. In addition, she helped to develop programs for teaching language through literature and worked in collaboration with classroom teachers to bridge language, reading and writing in school curriculum.

Sherry graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees in Communicative Disorders, where she currently serves on the Alumni Council. Licensed in Connecticut, she is a certified member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and a member of the Connecticut Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Infant and Toddlers Committee.  She has also served as the Chairman of the Adult Committee of “Young Life of Fairfield” and is involved with “Young Lives,” providing support for local unwed teenage moms.

Sherry and her husband Bob have been residents of Southport for more than 20 years. They have three sons who served as Sherry’s first Play on Words clients: Bill, Yale 2000, Andrew, Northwestern University 2003, and Peter, Duke University 2005.