Abstract Usher Syndrome is a congenital disease that causes severe hearing and vision loss and is the leading cause of childhood deafblindness in the United States. Current assistive technologies are limited, expensive, and do not support long-distance communication. This paper presents a personalized, wearable, long-distance communication system for the deafblind. This system is cloud-based and presents a surface electromyography (sEMG) gesture classification system that uses personalized, small-scale Convolution…