Problems We Address • 205The year 1975 also saw the birth of the National Committee*Arts for the Handicapped
(NCAH), later Very Special Arts, now VSA Arts. The organization has supported Very
Special Arts Festivals (N) and model programs in every state involving artists, educators,
and therapists. It has also funded studies, publications, and conferences such as “Art in the
Lives of Persons with Special Needs” sponsored by the National Art Education Association
and the American Art Therapy Association in 1979. Since art for those with disabilities was
beginning to be offered more widely, territory and roles needed to be defined.
Figure 9.9 Donald Uhlin, developmental art therapy.
Figure 9.10 Frances Anderson, adaptive art therapy.