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Due to the contemporary educational reform, the movement of teachers' preparation based on the competencies became the most prominent field of study. The current study aimed at exploring Professional Competencies among special education pre-service teachers (N = 112) and the level of their competencies' practice from their perspectives. Professional competence for special education teachers' scale was developed. Reliability and validity indications were achieved for this scale. Then it was administered to the sample of the study. Results indicated that students believe in the high importance of all competencies included in the scale, with the higher degree of importance for the efficiencies of IEP with a mean (4.44), while the level of students' practice of these competences was between high- medium with an average between (2.5-3.75). Only personal competences were high with a mean of (3.75), while the level of practice for the remaining competencies was medium. Practice of using technology competencies showed to be the lowest level with a medium mean of (2.50).