Discussion
aphasia
In the present study, we found that after a 2-week intervention, both group I (Chinese idioms training) and group II (routine rehabilitation training) showed significant improvement in the scores of oral expression, comprehension and reading sections in ABC and the scores of CADL, and the improvement in group I was significantly better than that in group II(The average improvement rates of oral expression, comprehension, reading and CADL were 48%, 13%, 45.2% and 55.9% in group I and 36.4%, 6.3%, 18.1% and 33.3% in group II, respectively).This indicates that the rehabilitation training based on Chinese idioms can effectively improve the language function and daily communication ability of patients, and its effect is better than that of conventional rehabilitation methods. Simultaneously, we also found that patients can benefit from the rehabilitation training of Chinese idioms in listening comprehension, even if they retain better in this ability.The benefit of the patient’s language function in this program may be related to the characteristics of the training material. Chinese idioms are harmonious, with level and oblique deployment and a strong sense of rhythm [The coherence of training material context may be the influencing factor of oral expression in aphasia. Studies have shown that providing contextual sentences helps patients with aphasia better understand [We recruited patients with non-fluent PSA, who are the main population of clinical rehabilitation training due to their retention of understanding ability, correct semantic expression, and high degree of cooperation [In conclusion, this randomized controlled trial shows that idiom rehabilitation training can improve the language function and daily communication ability of patients with non-fluent PSA, which is feasible and effective.