DS8 has had an IEP for 3 years now. He gets OT. They did the HWT program. His acomdation allows him to type. He started that at 6. His printing is still pretty awful although it's soooo much better than it was. But his cursive is 10000x better. Cursive has been so much easier for him, it's something about not having to lift the pencil. Here was a NYT article about it too. It's very strange in printing he makes he letter differently almost every time but cursive it looks the way it's supposed to more or less. It's still not as good as most kids his age. So he did HWT in K, 1st and 2nd, and in second they did the HWT cursive program. With the OT he is still doing printing with the goal of legibility in terms of forms and fill in the blanks, and that kind of stuff.
So my view - typing and HWT is the way to go. He will feel confident and successful with the typing which makes dealing with HWT easier. Plus the better he gets at typing the easier it is to express his complied thoughts which if your DS is like mine he can't do by printing.
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