There are hundreds of known medical issues which can impact a child's growth. We have compiled a list of some disorders and included links to other support organizations, if available. If you need more information pertaining to the conditions on this page, or have a link to another resource for one of the disorders below, feel free to contact us.
Partial List of Disorders Affecting Growth
3M Syndrome
6p25 Chromosome Deletion/ Riegers Anomly (Syndrome)
Aarskog Syndrome
Achondroplasia
Acrodysostosis
Addisons Disease
Adrenal Disorder
Alagille Syndrome
Albright Hereditary Osteodystrophy
Angelman Syndrome
Androgen Insensitivity syndrome
APS Type 1/APECED
Arnold-Chiari Malformation
Asperger Syndrome
Batten Disease Support and Research Association
Behcet's Disease
Bloom Syndrome
Bone Dysplasia (resembles Spondyloepiphyseal Dyspl)
Brachytelephalangic Chondrodysplasia Punctata (BCDP)
Campomelic Dysplasia or Syndrome
Cardiofaciocutaneous Syndrome
Cartilage-hair Hypoplasia
Cat Eye Syndrome
Caudal Regression Syndrome
Celiac Disease
Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral Palsy Group
Cerebral Palsy Guidance
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association
Charge Syndrome
Chromosomal disorder 18p-
Chromosome deletion 10 of 26
Chromosome 22 q 11.2 Deletion (also called Velo-Cardio-Facial syndrome, Shprintzen Syn, & DiGeorge Sequence)
Cleidocranial Dysostosis
Cockayne Syndrome possible
Colitis
Conradi Hunermann
Cornelia deLange Syndrome
Costello Syndrome
Crohn's Disease
DeBarsy Syndrome
Delayed Puberty
Deletion Chromosome 2, possible GHD
Diastrophic Dysplasia
DiGeorge Syndrome
Down Syndrome
Dubowitz Syndrome & CPP
Dyggve Melchior Clausen
Dyslexia Research Society
International Dyslexia Association
Edwards Syndrome
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Empty Sella
Epilepsy Foundation
Epstein-Barr Syndrome
Failure to Thrive
Fairbank Disease - Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia
Familial Dysautonomia
Fanconi Anemia
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Support
Fetal Anti-Convulsant Syndrome
Fetal Veapkote Syndrome / Fetal Balproate Acid Syndrome
Froelich's Syndrome
Gerneralized Resistance to Thyroid Hormone
Geroderma Osteocystlastica
Glycogen Storage Disease
Graves Disease
Guillan Barre Syndrome Foundation
Hallerman-Streif Syndrome
Hashimoto Thyroiditis
Hemihypertrophy
Hirschsprungs
Huntington's Disease Society of America
Hydrocephlus - IUGR
Hypocalcemia/Calcium Sensing Receptor Gene Mutation
Hypochondraplasia
Hypophospatemic Rickets/AGHD
Hypophosphatasia
Idiopathic Short Stature
Inflamatory bowel disease/excessive production of GH
Intrauterine Growth Restriction
Jarcho-Levine Syndrome
Jeune Syndrome
Johanson Blizzard Syndrome
Juenes/Barnes Syndrome possible
Kallmann Syndrome
Kabuki Syndrome
Kenny Caffey Syndrome
Ketotic Hypoglycemia
Kleinfelters Syndrome
Kniest Syndrome (blog by mom)
Laron Syndrome
Langer Giedion Syndrome Possible
Langerhans cell Histiocytosis
Larsen's Syndrome
Leopard Syndrome
Leri Weill possible
Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant/
LGH/Skeletal Dysplasia
Lupus Foundation of America
Mayer Rokinstanski Syndrome
Marshall Smith Syndrome
Meier-Gorlin Syndrome - Ear, Patella, Short Stature-RSS possible
Metaphyseal Chondrodysplasia,type McKusick
Metaphyseal Dysplasia
Microcephaly
Mixed Gonadal Dysgenesis
Moebius Syndrome
Morquio Syndrome A
Mulibrey Nanism
Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia
Neurofibromatosis
Niemann Pick Disease
Noonan Syndrome
Odontohypophosphatasia
Oligodendroglioma
Osteogenesis Imperfecta
PAIS-Androgen Insensitivity 46xy
Partial Trisomy 10Q
Partial Trisomy 9P
Pierre Robin Syndrome/RSS
Pituitary Tumors
Pituitary Stalk Interruption Syndrome-PAN
Prader Willi USA or NY Chapter
Premature Adrenarche (see Precocious Puberty)
Pseudohypoaldosteronism (PHA)
Pseudohypoparathyroidism
Reciprocol Translocation of Chromosomes 7 and 9, possible GHD
Rett Syndrome
Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata (RCDP)
Robinow Syndrome
Shwachman Diamond Syndrome
Seckel Syndrome
Short Stature
Short Syndrome
Skeletal Dysplasia
Sotos Syndrome
Spina Bifida
Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia
Tangiers Syndrome
Trichorhinophalangeal Syndrome
Trisomy 14, Mosaic Pattern
Trisomy 18
Trisomy 21
trisomy 4 P +, GHD, genisis of the corpus colosom, ONH
Weaver Syndrome
Weill Marchesani Syndrome
Williams Syndrome
Wolf-Hirshhorn Syndrome also called 4P Minus
XQ 2628 Duplication
XXX Syndrome, Triple X Syndrome
Zellweger Syndrome