The author presents a practice that provides the opportunity and direction for those working with people living with differences. She introduces a way of caring about talents with twice-exceptionals in an inclusive environment by applying dance pedagogy including equipments of circus art. Talent identification and maintenance is performed in the following 3 areas: Bodily-kinesthetic, Interpersonal and Visual-spatial. In this book, author presents her own method she has used and the results she has achieved with one of the groups, in which the development of girls and young people with Down syndrome with active movement began with the tools of movement art and circus art. It turned out that the author could develop a TALENT SPROUT and help her for 17 years, who became an outstanding talent and is called Tímea Böczy - cooperative with her 'healthy' peers, able to actively participate in class, over and above she performs very serious exercises to a high standard. On the 18th of March 2013, she received the National Talent Support Council's special award. It was one of the milestones of her long-term subsequent follow-up, so the research will foreseeably last until 2023.

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Beatrix Kovács started dancing when she was three, and was on stage when she was four. After her high school years, she had the chance to learn from Endre Jeszenszky, a dancer, choreographer and ballet master. Since 2003, her field of research has been the development of children with disabilities including with Down syndrome, using her own method.