Awesome news, ultramarina!
Reading through this post, you could have been describing my concerns about my own DS this time last year. His issue is that his handwriting was neat but extremely slow. I think it took him over 5 minutes to write out all of the upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet once. There was also some irregularities in his writing, and we were trying to sort out if it was normal or if it was indicative of an LD.
This year, he has had the opportunity to write quite a bit more, and as a result has gotten much more fluent without losing his neatness. It turns out there was nothing for us to worry about, either. I would also echo that much more is expected of him this year, too. I don't know if that helps, but I think putting writing in the context of personal expression has motivated him much more than last year while the focus was repetitive, isolated letter formation (bleah!).
