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Workshops and events are being held at the Brooklyn Marriott, where special accommodations were made for the 3,000 people expected to attend.

Organizers say the conference is an opportunity for families and little people to come together for a week of fun activities and workshops.

This year, the group is calling on the FCC to ban a word from TV they say is derogatory and offensive. It comes after it was used repeatedly on NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" in a scenario they say was meant to humiliate people of short stature.

"The 'M' word -- midget. It's created as highly offensive to us," said LPA Conference Co-chair Clinton Brown III.

"A word is easily to be dismissed. It's a lot more of the meaning and the impression it gives about little people, that we're always down here instead of reaching up here," said LPA conference participant and star of TLC's "Little People, Big World" Amy Roloff.

While Roloff says she doesn't expect the word to ever go away completely, the LPA says increased advocacy has allowed them to make great strides toward that goal.