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They are two different things. The damaged caused by fetal alcohol leaves the children unable to retain certain items of knowledge. While the symptoms do overlap and many FAS/FAE kids do have RAD, RAD techniques wil not work with fetal alcohol.
Most learning problems RAD kids have are self induced. They're so worried about being in control and so busy manipulated adults to see if they're safe, that the kids can't learn anything. As they heal, the learning problems disappear quickly.
I'm not sure your doctor know much about how RAD is treeted. I've run into a lot of really good doctors that can spot RAD, but don't know what to do after that. My kids were score on the RADQ developed by Liz Randolph (who also did intensives with two of my kids).
Anyway, as your child is treeted for RAD it will be easier to determine if FAS or anything else is adding to the problem.
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