This paper is a product of Project COMPETE, a service demonstration project undertaken for the purpose of developing and validating a model and training sequence to improve transition services for moderately, severely, and profoundly retarded youth. The paper describes the Taxonomy of Community Living Skills, an organized statement of instructional goals to aid in curriculum development for persons with mental retardation. The goals are organized into five domains: (1) Homemaking and Community Life, (2) Vocational, (3) Leisure, (4) Personal Maintenance and Development, and (5) Travel. The taxonomy provides lists of skills for each of the major goals. In addition each domain has a list of potential "glitches" with which everyone must learn to cope (e.g., missing the bus). Results of a review of the taxonomy by 59 experts in instruction of the retarded are detailed and indicate that they perceived the taxonomy as a potentially useful document. Twenty-one references are listed. (DB)