This article describes development and psychometric properties of the Community Living Attitudes Scale, Mental Retardation, a 40-item measure based on the input of self-advocates and focused on contemporary community living philosophies. Tested with 742 individuals, the measure's factor structure was confirmed, and subscales of Empowerment, Exclusion, Sheltering, and Similarity demonstrated acceptable internal consistency, retest reliability, and construct validity. (Author/DB)