delurking again... lol
We homeschool, so it's rare that we need anything formal to deal with acceleration, but there was one situation where I was asking for an outside class to consider admitting DS at a ridiculously young age, and in I was delighted to find that the person who got to make that decision had heard of DYS (in fact he brought it up!), and that just being able to say that DS was a YS was sufficient for the guy to take my word that he was ready for the class. It was like a perfect "I'm not making this up" keyword... almost magical in that particular situation where I was sure I was going to have to do some serious explaining and begging, but instead just had to say "Davidson" and it was all clear.
But like Dottie said, my day-to-day assistance is mostly from other parents. I can post a question that elsewhere would be shot down (my 8 year old wants to do Euclid, is there a useful study guide?) and find that I'm not the first to be in that situation and that those who came before have good solid advice with URLs and ISBN numbers.
