True Places Counseling
Dr. Alison B. Wetmur, DSW, LCSW
I am a social work scholar and educator whose work centers Disability Justice, d/Deaf studies, and trauma-informed practice. I teach in the MSW and DSW programs at the University of Kentucky College of Social Work. Since 2017 I have also run a bilingual English/ASL clinical practice. My research looks at how social work's own frameworks create the access barriers the field later tries to accommodate, and at what changes when disabled people are treated as knowledge holders.
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Documents and Contact
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Recognition and Leadership
2026 CSWE Disability Manuscript of the Year Award
Inaugural Chair, NASW National Committee on Disabilities (2026–2028)
Team Lead, Disability Justice cross-cutting group, Social Work Grand Challenges Futures Initiative
Co-Founder, Social Work Disability Justice League, and organizer of its annual Unconference
Board Member, Connecticut Hands & Voices
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Selected Publications
Journal articles
Llamosa, P., & Wetmur, A. B. (2025). For a more holistic conceptualization of clinical supervision: Challenges and opportunities for clinical practice. Social Work. Read the article
Wetmur, A. B. (2024). The experience of growing up Deaf in a hearing-abled family: A phenomenological study. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 51. Winner of the 2026 CSWE Disability Manuscript of the Year Award. Read the article
Book chapters
Gault, G. L., Wetmur, A. B., Plummer, S., & Findley, P. A. (2023). Violence against people with disabilities: Implications for practice. In E. Slayter & L. Johnson (Eds.), Social work practice and disability communities. Pressbooks.
Sherwood, K., Kattari, S. K., & Wetmur, A. B. (2023). Sexuality, hearing loss, and d/Deaf individuals. In S. K. Kattari (Ed.), Exploring sexuality and disability (pp. 96–107). Routledge.
Under review
Wetmur, A. B., & Durant, K. T. Access is not accommodation: Disability Justice, care ethics, and social work’s Rawlsian inheritance. Affilia.
Wetmur, A. B., & Skyer, M. We are disabled: Ableism, classification, and Deaf political identity. Disability & Society.
Upcoming presentation
Wetmur, A. B. (2026, October 24). From isolation to identity: Centering d/Deaf standpoint epistemology in Disability Justice pedagogy. Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting, Atlanta, GA.