The Current State of the Issue of Mentally Retarded Children's Self-care Skills Development: Self-care (skills to dress and undress, look after oneself, use a toilet, take food independently, bathe, wash, etc.) directly influences a child's self-assessment, it is an important step on the way to their socialization. Self-care skills formation will allow in future to solve effectively the problems of children's views and knowledge expansion about surrounding things, sensory upbringing, speech, fine motor skills and hand eye coordination development and also the skill to imitate actions and follow verbal instructions, samples, to observe a definite sequence of actions.