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Articles We have searched the internet to bring you links to articles & videos that relate to restricted growth, in the hope that by sharing this information others can gather inspiration from it. If you discover articles which are signidicant, newsworthy or funny please let us know - email webmaster@restrictedgrowth.co.uk. The RGA cannot be responsible for any content on external websites.

World's tallest man meets 2-foot tall friend
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John is a member of the RGA - the online Disability Magazine has done a feature on him - click here to read it.

A BBC News Report - Toddler's dwarfism is unique. A toddler from Maghull is the only person in the UK to be diagnosed with a rare form of dwarfism*.

*The above wording has been taken directly from the BBC Website.

Aiming High - A pediatric orthopedic surgeon who has Achondroplasia.

Little People and Media - An Interview with Lisa Osmond.

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Big winner - First-ever little person on 'Deal or No Deal' wins $48,000

Floods 'damaging girl's health'

US Television News Video Item on YouTube - The Bigger Picture

Short film entitled 'Short'.

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Interview about Peter Dinklage - star of the film 'Station Agent'

Ivy Broadhead's article 'Living with Achondroplasia' - Newcastle Evening Chronicle.

Video - Surviving the teenage years with dwarfism

Video - 11yr old Eleanor Simmonds wins the Young Disabled Sports Person of the Year.

News - Ancient Egypt 'respected dwarfs'

Remembering the Ovitz family - The Ovitz family were a restricted growth family.

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Dwarfism treatment gave woman CJD

A little reality -The father of a girl with dwarfism peers into her future.

Roloff's - A Dream Lives in a Grand Design

House of Commons Hansard Debates for 30 Oct 2003

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A woman with restricted growth has told a tribunal the Labour Party discriminated against her by refusing her a job on the 1997 General Election campaign team.

Babylon Heights - Theatre review by June McCarthy

Dwarves look to end discrimination

Ideas Factors - Small Matters

Sport for All - Making an impact for dwarf athletics

Newcastle University Article - Restricted Growth Study

NHS Direct - article on 'Restricted Growth'

Clinical Report on Supervision of Children with Achondroplasia - Contains the achondroplastic growth charts.

A French mans appeal for dwarf throwing thrown out.

Teenager grows after stretch op

Tom Shakespeare's column at BBC's disability website Ouch

Volunteer Oscars - April Barrett receives award for all her hard work.

Video:Restricted Growth People in Nigeria making a living through film.

 

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