Weekly Calendar Planning Activity
What It Measures
The Weekly Calendar Planning Activity (WCPA) asks someone to fit a list of appointments and errands into a weekly schedule while following rules, avoiding time conflicts, and ignoring distractions. Rather than testing memory or attention in isolation, it watches how a person actually manages a busy, realistic planning task, the kind of thing that trips people up in daily life long before more basic skills are affected.
Developed by Joan Toglia, the WCPA is used by occupational therapists, speech therapists, and mental health clinicians with adolescents and adults who have executive functioning difficulties, often following stroke, brain injury, or other neurological conditions. It's well suited to inpatient rehabilitation and skilled nursing settings, and scoring captures accuracy, strategy use, and self-awareness of performance — details that help guide cognitive rehabilitation planning beyond a single pass/fail score.
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Additional Notes
Cost of $112 (AOTA member), $161 (non-member). Administration time varies 10-40 minutes.
