Again, others may disagree, but in my nearly two decades of personal experience, parenting/advocating for a child with disabilities is different than for a 2E child and for a Gifted child. I also firmly believe that many of the regular posters on this forum already graciously answer questions and offer assistance when they are approached by other parents regarding 2E or gifted
This is very true, the situations are very different (foot in both worlds here, too). still, a lot of what I do in the disabilities world I do online, too, but it's not like in the "gifted community" which I agree with PPs exists, if at all, almost entirely online, due to critical mass but also a bigger need for anonymity. Many kids with my child's disability use wheelchairs. What's to hide? I freely share his diagnoses with anyone. I have not shared DS8 s test result with close family even.
Also, quite apart from the problem how you'd even identify beneficiaries for a program like this (after all, with most disabilities you will not face denial that the disability even exists or is a problem and not an upper middle class fictional construct - thanks clementine beauvais!) the idea here is not that you would mentor a family simply because you have travelled this road before them, but because you are telling them, in essence, "your kid is much smarter than you, and because of your background/race/SES, unlike me, you don't have a clue what to do about it."
Remember, you are proposing to mentor *parents*, not the kids. In parenting. As I have found, in my few mild mannered attempts, hardly a touchier subject.
