Diane Pedrotty Bryantis a Professor in the Department of Special Education at The University of Texas at Austin, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. Diane served as principal investigator of a response to intervention grant from the Institute of Education Sciences. Diane taught special education classes for many years. Diane has published articles on instructional strategies for students with learning disabilities in refereed journals such as the  Learning Disability Quarterly ,  Journal of Learning Disabilities ,  Remedial and Special Education, Journal of Mathematical Behavior,  International Journal of STEM Education, Teacher Education and Special Education,  and  Learning Disabilities Research & Practice . She is the co-author of three textbooks and three tests. .