The author discusses the need for severely handicapped students to acquire basic home living skills, reviews task analysis principles, and provides sample instructional programs. Listed are basic grooming, dressing, domestic maintenance, and cooking skills. A sample task analysis procedure is demonstrated for the skill of brushing teeth. Reported are two studies in which severely handicapped adolescents were instructed in hair brushing and hair washing. Included in five appendixes are data sheets and descriptions of instructional arrangements for washing and brushing hair. (CL)