Violent temper in 16 month old, help please!

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My youngest is so explosive and violent when he doesn't get what he wants or is made to move away from something he's doing or taken to nap etc etc.
He hits, pinches scratches and screams and screams. It's starting to get me down now and I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing about it, he's too young for time out/naughty step type thing. We've tried consistently telling him no, tried ignoring completely. Nothing works and he's getting worse Today for picking him to up to go for his nap I gained theses lovely new wounds
What should I be doing? Is this normal behaviour!? He's my fourth but none of the others were anything like this, I'm feeling useless and at a total loss.

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Mine was awful too and I'm
Sorry to say stayed pretty difficult and awful
Until he was about 4y.

We went to parenting classes in the end. Incredible Years programme. It was intense (3m) but vg.

Also had him psych assessed but they said he was too young really and to come back if it persisted.

He had quite severe speech delay which in retrospect seemed to be at the heart of it. Once he finally started talking AND we had better parenting skills it came together.

He still has a vicious temper and tends to be v emotional. But we seldom see the scale of it now.

Oh that doesn't sound good!
I was beginning to worry about his speech development, he still doesn't have any words at all. I don't remember when the others talked but I'm sure they had some words by now.
I'll go to GP and ask for an assessment if he's not too young.
I hope things can calm down before he's 4, I think I might go mad by then