Difficulty reading single words represents a common sequel of acquired neurological injury and common component in aphasic breakdown. Investigation of reading disturbances in Serbian speakers with aphasia has been hampered by lack of any standardised clinical test. We report the development of the Serbian Word Reading Test (SWRT). This first clinical single word assessment for the Serbian language examines reading aloud words from different word classes (concrete and abstract nouns, verbs, adjectives, function words and non-words) and summarises performance based on error types (articulatory, phonological, semantic, neologistic, morphological, visual). Initial piloting with 51 people with aphasia after stroke and 50 control participants without neurological disturbance demonstrated high specificity (0.96) and sensitivity (0.98) for detecting presence of reading impairment. Preliminary comparisons between different aphasic syndromes evidenced contrasting success across varying word-classes. Analyses demonstrated significant differences in susceptibility to different reading errors according to aphasia subtype. Cross-language comparisons show largely similar profiles of breakdown to other languages despite the differing morphological and orthographic characteristics of Serbian. We present the SWRT as a valid and reliable clinical and research tool.

难以阅读的单词代表了获得性神经损伤的常见后遗症和失语症的常见组成部分。缺乏任何标准化的临床测试阻碍了塞尔维亚语失语症患者阅读障碍的调查。我们报告了塞尔维亚文字阅读测试（SWRT）的发展。这是针对塞尔维亚语的首次临床单字评估，旨在检查来自不同单词类别（具体和抽象名词，动词，形容词，功能词和非单词）的朗读单词，并根据错误类型（发音，语音，语义，新语言）总结表现，形态，视觉）。中风后失语症的51人和无神经系统障碍的50名对照参与者的初始飞行员表现出高特异性（0.96）和敏感性（0。98）用于检测阅读障碍的存在。在不同的失语症候群之间进行的初步比较表明，在不同的单词类别中，成功的对比不同。分析表明，根据失语症亚型，对不同阅读错误的易感性存在显着差异。尽管塞尔维亚语的形态和字法特征不同，但跨语言比较显示出与其他语言大致相同的细分情况。我们将SWRT介绍为有效且可靠的临床和研究工具。尽管塞尔维亚语的形态和字法特征不同，但跨语言比较显示出与其他语言大致相同的细分情况。我们将SWRT介绍为有效且可靠的临床和研究工具。尽管塞尔维亚语的形态和字法特征不同，但跨语言比较显示出与其他语言大致相同的细分情况。我们将SWRT介绍为有效且可靠的临床和研究工具。