As with any child. Find something they hate and use it to your advantage. With ds1 it was the hoover. He hated the sound, so if he hit/bit/etc, we'd stick the hoover on.
Neither of my lads much cared if you were pleased or cross with them, or if you took toys away, and timeout was bliss cos they didn't have to engage with you! so that sort of thing was useless.
When ds1 was little, I could just plonk him in the playpen and let him throw himself about to his hearts content!
I also found anticipating and deflecting or grabbing them and shifting them helped, but there are times you just can't get there, or something happens so unexpectedly, so the hoover was our backup. As was a wraparound technique, which was good for the, er, wilder moments Legs round his legs, arms round his body, pinning his arms, and head tucked into his back - forgot that once and he broke my nose!! ouch.
ds2 was very placid. Just didn't listen or care! But never really did anything (That's coming now!!)
Now we find their behaviour is worse if they haven't had physical exercise, so we get them to run a mile or 2 most days. (we have a treadmill) We can also use it with ds2 as a threat! We're lucky because when we say it's pe he accepts it, but when he's done something or doing something and we say "Treadmill", he stops! He has the 2 things - pe and treadmill - compartmentalised, iyswim, even though he's doing the same thing. Odd little bugger
I've always taken the view that it's THIS world they have to live in, so it's the rules and norms of THIS world they have to learn, and while I understand how they think (up to a point!) and why they behave the way they do, that makes no difference, they still have to learn to function as near to the rest of us as possible, if that makes any sense. It's only the way I teach them that, that is any different.