“…The elderly have demonstrated decreased performance on fast speech (Bergman, Blumenfeld, Cascardo, Dash, Levitt, & Margulies, 1976;Calearo & Lazzaroni, 1957), interrupted speech (Bergman, 1971;Bergman et al, 1976;Kirikae et al, 1964;and Marston & Goetzinger, 1972), and reverberated speech (Bergman, 1971;Bergman et al, 1976). There is disagreement about the effects of time-expanded and time-compressed speech.…”