Um, yes, I have experience here. Ds7.5 is pg and was born with severe plagiocephaly (both flattening and facial asymmetry), severe SPD, torticollis (head tilting) - which is somewhat similar to CP, vision deficits, hypotonia (low muscle tone), etc. He's had tons of therapies/ interventions - including 5 yrs of ot (including3 years in a sensory OT gym), 5 yrs of pt, and 2.5 years of vt. This last year he's been in and out of neurofeedback and water therapy (which also can address vestibular or body-in-space issues).

The symptoms that you described (tracking, clumsiness, gross motor skills, vestibular, body-in-space, proprioceptive) can be addressed with VT. The results can be quite dramatic over time. Yes, VT can be expensive, a long process, and not a magic cure. Yes, been there, done that. There's daily vision exercises - some of which your child will not like because they have to use their brain and body.

With VT (and NFT - neurofeedback), you're basically re-wiring the brain and how the eyes function with the body. It alters a person's perception and sense of reality. It forces a child to accept the new reality and way of viewing life. And let's face it, this is not always smooth sailing or achieved by simply sticking a pair of glasses on.

With VT, a behavioral optometrist will prescribe ambient glasses (20/20 vision is about acuity and totally different) and create a specially designed program for your child that involves daily vision exercises. These daily exercises should take 15 minutes or so - that's with a cooperative child. These daily exercises can take considerably longer with an uncooperative child!

OT can address SPD, proprioceptive and vestibular issues, but only to a point, I believe. If there are outstanding visual perceptual deficits or something more intractable or ingrained like my Ds had (which it sounds like you have), you're only going to have so much success before plateauing.

The visual processing system accounts for an astounding 80% or so of our senses. As a result, if something goes awry with it, it can create quite a bottleneck.

Here's what I would do. Read about vision therapy. My son's former behavioral optometrist has a book (http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Through-New-Eyes-Developmental/dp/1843108003), but there are others on the market and should be available at your local library. There's also websites (http://www.covd.org/). You could Google my son's former behavioral optometrist (Dr. Melvin Kaplan) or Dr. Jeffrey Getzell in Chicago - both are old timers and well regarded in the field.

1) I would schedule a full perceptual eye exam with a behavioral optometrist - preferably an old timer with tons of experience like my son's (who should be retired now). I know Dr. Melvin Kaplan and Dr. Jeffrey Getzell are names that might help. You might want to take a look at their websites and see what they say.
2) I'd schedule an OT sensory exam.
3) I'd look into neurofeedback and/or water therapy.
4) Take a deep breath and say you can do this. Take one step at a time. Remind yourself Rome was not built in a day.

I know you may feel like the teacher overstepped the line (and I wouldn't disagree with you in feeling this way). However, I think the teacher was genuinely trying to help and concerned. And though she may not be qualified to say so, she isn't far from the mark by what she said based on what I've read from your post. I was told similar things over the years by various specialists.

Before we started neurofeedback last Aug, we saw a 2e expert. She said Ds still had outstanding SPD issues despite years and years of therapies/interventions. I didn't want to hear it at the time. She said that I had to treat DS7 as a special needs child rather than a pg and to focus on addressing the special needs first. Since my son had 2.5 years of VT, we talked about NFT. She felt that NFT might get to the root of Ds's issues and the neurological wiring. Well, NFT looks at actual brain wave activity of DS's brain and I can say that they can get to the root of the matter, though not overnight.