The government has announced in its first autism strategy that autistic people will be able to reorganize their lives by having an access to education, jobs, and good health care as others.

According to care services minister Phil Hope, "The success of the strategy will depend upon those existing services changing to recognise and respond to the needs of people with autism."

The strategy is being expected to tke shape without extra finance but the government is announcing £500,000 to train frontline professionals to better recognise and understand autism and its needs.

The decision has been welcomed by Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University.

According to the recent Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, one in every 100 adults have a condition somewhere on the autistic spectrum which means that over 300,000 adults have autism in England.

Asperger's syndrome has been included for the purposes of the strategy by the Department of Health.

The Autism Act 2009 was passed following increasing confirmation that people suffering from autism have to face social and economic exclusion.

Baron-Cohen states, "Adults with autism spectrum conditions have been invisible, marginalised, and left to suffer in a system they cannot negotiate unaided.”

For leading the public service changes, a National Autism Programme Board will be set up.