German Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Conversation Questionnaire

Background: The Conversation Questionnaire (CQ) assesses everyday conversational difficulties through items developed with autistic adults. We translated the CQ into German and examined whether its psychometric properties reproduced the original findings. Methods: Translation, author consultation, and cognitive debriefing with 15 self-reported autistic adults preceded validation in 185 native German-speaking adults. Participants reported an autism diagnosis (diagnosed), suspected or self-identified autism (suspected), or neither. We reanalyzed the original data (n = 266) to provide comparable