Challenging behaviour autistic toddler

[autismtoddlermama]

Hello! I have a sweet little 3 year old boy who has also been diagnosed with autism - level 2/3 for speech and level 3/3 for repetitive behaviours. He is currently non verbal aside from mama, no-no and constant conversational babble - he is really trying poor little love but I'm not sure if he will ever talk who knows.
We are having some big challenges with behaviour these past few months due to frustration and sadness at not being able to communicate - he gets sad but he also gets angry and yells and has angry outbursts on and off a day. He is so demanding from dawn to dusk, just refuses to leave me be for even a moment and I feel like an emotional punching bag for his constant outbursts.
I'm exhausted and feeling so defeated by it all.
I am hoping to hear some similar experiences of other parents and what has worked for you.
Right now we are about to try photo flash cards to help him show us what he needs and that way even if he can't talk we can figure out another method for him.

DS was completely non verbal till 9 and a half years old. He was exceptionally frustrated in the early years. It improved once we found an alternative communication method which worked for him. Finding the right one was certainly a challenge. Once he could get his basic needs met he stopped the vast majority of the more extreme frustration related behaviours. At the moment your Ds is fully reliant on you, you will no what he wants and he will no how to use you to get what he wants. It was the same for us, DS was very clingy as a result. Once he started using alternative communication that greatly improved and he would go to other people as he knew they understood him.

His communication is still mostly alternative (he uses a high tech aac device) but he is able to get his needs met and interact with me on a basic social level.

Good luck!

@greenjewel

DS was completely non verbal till 9 and a half years old. He was exceptionally frustrated in the early years. It improved once we found an alternative communication method which worked for him. Finding the right one was certainly a challenge. Once he could get his basic needs met he stopped the vast majority of the more extreme frustration related behaviours. At the moment your Ds is fully reliant on you, you will no what he wants and he will no how to use you to get what he wants. It was the same for us, DS was very clingy as a result. Once he started using alternative communication that greatly improved and he would go to other people as he knew they understood him.

His communication is still mostly alternative (he uses a high tech aac device) but he is able to get his needs met and interact with me on a basic social level.

Good luck!

Thank you so much for sharing and I am really thrilled to hear you found an alternate communication form that worked for him! That all gives me a lot of hope that with time and the right communication forms that my ds might cope a bit better too! Your description of "exceptionally frustrated" rings true for my ds too, your heart really breaks for them doesn't it!

Hiya
my little boy is non-verbal and just turned 3. We use proper sign language, signs he has made up himself, pictures in books and I’ve made some photo cards that we laminated and stuck on kitchen cabinets where he can reach them of all the places we go so I can ask him what he fancies do that day and he can tell me. We manage to have whole conversations without actual words so we luckily have no frustration yet.
hope your coping ok xxx