Presented is the final report of the Home Life Program, a demonstration project (1971-74) designed to teach basic academic and homemaking skills to 100 educable mentally retarded institutionalized persons. The project is noted to have been successful in teaching new skills and in improving self-help skills and appropriate behavior. It is explained that skills learned in school led to increased work responsibility acceptance, decision making, and acceptable social behavior. Also described is the change in institutional philosophical orientation from a medical to a more socially oriented model. (Author/CL)