HoneyBadger - we used gel pens for our kid with dysgraphia as well as pencils with insertable lead - and put fat, spongy grippers on both. It really helped when he was younger. Great advice!

perplexed - that's awesome writing! Cursive was not the magic bullet for our son, but I'd heard that it could be. Your sample is proof of that!

My son's mid school teachers have all banded together and decided that my son will have access to their classroom computers rather than doing his work on paper. His keyboarding skills are quite good, so he's much faster and accurate when typing.